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The purpose of the IMPEL Reference Book on Environmental Inspection is to provide a tool to environmental inspectors in the European Union. It is mainly meant for field inspectors but can also be useful to top and middle management.
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The report contains the proceedings of the meeting with environmental inspectors on industrial accidents in Lyon, France 27-28 April 1999. The report stresses the role of the inspecting authority in collecting information about an accident and the importance of feeding the information back to those that could make use of it. A total of 14 accidents, most of them in France, were reported. The accidents range from explosion and fires in chemical plants and gas leakage from vessels to rescue of...
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The report aims to promote common principles for determining the frequency of environmental inspection of industrial installations. It covers the following types of inspections: Routine inspections, Reactive inspections and Specific inspection campaigns.
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The monitoring of industrial processes, their releases and their impact on the environment, is often carried out by the competent authorities. However it may also be an obligation on the operators themselves including an obligation to report the results to the competent authority. This is known as operator self-monitoring.
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The report of this project presents the results of an IMPEL ad hoc project with the regard to the issues above. It contains three main sections.

1. section 1 is a comparison of the texts of the four instruments. It is intended to make reading the legal texts easier.
2. section 2 lists the installations falling within the scope of the instruments. It is intended to give an indication of whether or not a particular installation has to comply with the provisions of...

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The project reports that there are great differences amoung the Member States in:

• Current emission limit values, particularly for nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur dioxide (SO2)
• Requirements on monitoring
• Criteria for input material, particularly waste
• Competent authorities and licensing procedure, e.g. as regards trial runs
• The report further contains reports on the legislative background in the EU as well as on Best Available Technology (BAT)...

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The report presents minimum criteria for environmental inspections with the aim of promoting common principles for the inspection of industrial installations which arise from the obligations on industry to respect the implementation of environmental law and to protect the environment.
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