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IRI Portugal

  • Number: 2009/09
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2009
  • Lead Country: Portugal

  • Project team countries:
    France, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Slovenia and United Kingdom.

  • Participating countries:
    France, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Slovenia and United Kingdom.

Executive Summary

Throughout, the IRI team have identified several examples of ‘good practice’ and ‘opportunities for development’, when considering the implementation of the above Directives during the review. Specifically, the review team have highlighted the following as particularly strong examples of this:

  • The exceptional Inspectorate’s information systems (GIS, GESTIGAOT and Risk Assessment) and;
  • The problem solving objectives and targets as described in their annual Activity Plan.

Opportunities for development:

  • To develop multi-annual objectives;
  • To make inspection reporting more efficient and;
  • To use different types of interventions.

The review team considers that the objectives of the area of EC environmental law within the scope of the review of IGAOT are being delivered in Portugal. Furthermore the arrangements for environmental inspection and enforcement are broadly in line with the RMCEI.

Overall the review team is impressed by the range of instruments and provisions that IGAOT has developed over the last few years. This has significantly helped IGAOT in the process of professionalization to which it is strongly dedicated. IGAOT has shown that a relatively small inspection organisation can achieve major improvements and may serve as an example for inspecton organisations with a similar size and scope of work.



Project description

The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme developed by the IMPEL Network providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries.

In line with the Recommendation for Minimum Criteria for Environmental Inspections (RMCEI), this informal review of the Portuguese Environmental and Spatial Planning General Inspectorate (IGAOT) by a broad cross section of the IMPEL network, focused upon the inspection and enforcement of the IPPC and SEVESO Directives and where relevant other EU Directives applicable to industrial processes covered by the RMCEI.

Final report - IRI Portugal