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PROJECTS
Waste Sites
- Number: 2011/21
- Status: Running
- Period: 2011
- Lead Country: Germany
Project team countries:
Germany, Sweden, the UK, Slovenia, The Netherlands
Participating countries:
Inspectors and other experts at authorities competent for waste site and waste shipment inspections in up to 12 IMPEL member countries, possibly customs and police officers.
Executive Summary
The objective is to identify good practices and develop a practical guidance tool for the inspection of “upstream” waste sites, and for the promotion of compliance with waste law on these sites, by competent authorities in the IMPEL member countries.
Project description
Recent discussions in IMPEL-TFS and among high-level inspectors have addressed, among other things, the necessity to focus on “waste sites” in Europe in connection with illegal waste exports. The High Level Inspectors meeting of 28 April 2009, for instance, agreed on the need to look “upstream” to recycling and other waste treatment facilities which should be inspected in view of the poor quality of some waste going for export. The draft Action Plan of the European Commission presented at this meeting included upstream controls as one of the elements in the fight against illegal waste shipments and called for guidance on how integrated controls at the various stages of generation, collection and shipment of waste could best take place in order to ensure a consistent and uniform approach.
At the IMPEL-TFS NCP Exchange Days meeting of September 2009, inspections of waste sites with regard to waste shipments was mentioned as one of the favourite future projects.