Projects

International cooperation and alignment is extremely important when it comes to the enforcement of the European Waste Shipment Regulations (WSR) 1013/2006. Previous IMPEL-TFS projects showed that it is very much needed to work together as competent authorities. The enforcement deficit of the WSR is serious and can only be tackled by joining forces on an international level and create an equal counterpart for the global waste trade and environmental criminals that act...

The projects and activities of the TFS cluster are based on the European Waste Shipment Regulation Nº 1013/2006. Being a Regulation and including a cross-border aspect, it is of high importance to have an active and practical European network of inspectors and regulators that meet on a regular basis to exchange practical experiences. Not only environmental inspectors, but also Customs and Police officers and the Judiciary. Ongoing IMPEL-TFS projects continue to show...

The aim of the project was to define the 10 performance indicators proposed by the 2008 IMPEL project “ Brainstorming on an IMPEL Project to develop performance indicators for environmental inspectorates “, to assess their strength and weaknesses, and to run a pilot test among a short list of IMPEL members. On this basis, a revised and as precisely defined as possible list of indicators was proposed, together with a qualitative assessment of each the indicators.

Tasks were divided amongst a small project team and proposals discussed at a workshop held in London in August 2009. The results of this work are:

• Reasons why every country should have an IRI
• Proposals on marketing the IRI
• Practical information on how to organise a review
• A revised and simplified questionnaire

This project recommended that...

Intensive pig farms above a specified capacity are regulated under the IPPC Directive. However, it has been noted that the control of environmental impacts can be difficult and the permitting and in spection regimes with regard to these installations show difference s between the Member States. In order to examine the range of practice in the Member States, this IMPEL project was undertaken.

A neighbourhood dialogue is a voluntary communication instrument to solve environmental problems and conflicts between industrial sites and their neighbours. It is either established by a company concerned or by authorities. The quality assessment (during and at the end of the process) should become an integrated part of the process. The main outcome of the project is the Guideline for Self-Evaluation of Neighbourhood Dia­logues with the toolbox containing:  1)  characteristics...

This seminar  took place on 3-4 June, 2009 in Paris (France): 19 countries involved, including France – registration of 270 persons including 44 participants coming from EU countries apart from France including Turkey and Croatia - presentations of 21 recent accidents.

Various kinds of recent accidents concerning different fields were presented : e.g. 3 accidents in refineries, major release of oil in a tank farm in Ambes in...

The projects and activities of the TFS cluster are based on the European Waste Shipment Regulation Nº 1013/2006. Being a Regulation and including a cross-border aspect, it is of high importance to have an active and practical European network of inspectors and regulators that meet on a regular basis to exchange practical experiences. Ongoing IMPEL-TFS projects continue to show the need for establishing and above all maintaining good and practical collaboration between...

The main objectives of this project are to work towards an adequate level of inspections in all Member States and at all exit points of the EU, to introduce complete measures in order to prevent and detect illegal waste shipments and to deter illegal waste exporters, to verify waste destination and the treatment at destination within or outside Europe, to set up training and exchange programmes for inspectors, and to maintain and improve the network and collaboration...