Projects - Enforcement cooperation

The Waste Shipment Regulation (1013/2006/EC) requires Member States to inspect shipments of waste and to co-operate with each other. The Enforcement Actions project was set up for the following reasons:

• Some Member States expressed the need for a formalised project framework in order to integrate this with the enforcement inspections in their own countries;
• International cooperation is essential to tackle international environmental problems; and
• The network of...

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This project will run until the spring of 2014 and will encourage best practice in waste shipment inspections through a series of coordinated inspections and exchanges.  The inspections under this project will take place during three periods in both 2012 and 2013.  A ‘chain’ (from site of loading to site of recovery) approach to inspection will be used to verify environmentally sound management of waste shipments. Enforcement tools will also be developed as part of this project to encourage...
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The focus of the project was to promote the use of neighbourhood dialogues as an instrument for the solution of environmental conflicts by developing concise step-by-step instructions based on the “Toolkit” and the “Self-Evaluation Guidelines” and testing them on live cases (to see previous Neighbourhood Dialogue projects). The project aimed to:

• Develop a PowerPoint presentation and instructions which can be used...

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Enforcement is the tool that the authorities can use to achieve compliance with the regulation. Compliance with the legal requirements is an essential foundation for environmental protection. Without compliance, environmental requirements will not achieve the desired results. Enforcement is an important action second to regulation, inspection and identification of non-compliance. This project can be considered as a continuation of previous IMPEL projects like: Review of Compliance promotion, Inspections...
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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 globally. To improve the collaboration...
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