Projects - illegal waste shipments

This project aimed to:

• Establish contacts in key African countries with Competent Authorities (focus on West Africa);
• Assess current situation regarding (illegal) imports from the EU, enforcement structures, treatment possibilities, problematic waste streams and import restrictions;
• Agree on how to deal with verification requests and detected illegal shipments and their return.

During controls of waste shipments, cases of non-compliance are detected by the inspectors on a regular basis. For these situations, the legislation has included take-back obligations. To support the involved authorities in the actual arrangements of repatriating the waste, IMPEL TFS has developed a guidance manual.

The aim of this project was the improvement of the European enforcement of waste shipment regulation as laid down in EU Regulation 259/93 and the Basel convention, by improved cooperation between the enforcement authorities.

The project identified several levels of improvement. A network of enforcers in the participating ports was formed and this network is used to exchange information about violations of the regulation, differences...

Main aim of the IMPEL-TFS Seaport II project is to improve inspections and the enforcement of regulations on the transfrontier shipments of waste, and to align enforcement actions between seaports, organisations and countries involved. The project also aims to stimulate cooperation and information exchange on national and international scale, to set up a network of European contacts, to identify specific seaport enforcement problems, and to raise awareness at the general...

The IMPEL-TFS Verification of waste destination - II project is focussing on the practical implementation of Article 30 of EU Regulation 259/93. One of the main aims is to gain insight in and improve compliance of waste shipment legislation regarding the verification of (the final destination of) waste shipments. European cooperation on operational level between enforcement authorities involved should be improved, as well as the exchange of practical knowledge and...

From October 2003 until November 2004 an enforcement project was carried out between seven EU countries in the framework of EU Regulation 259/93 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Union, aiming at:

• Establishing a network of enforcement authorities and to improve communication and collaboration between responsible authorities;
• Developing a method for the...

The EU-Regulation No. 259/93 (the Regulation) on the control of shipments of waste within, into and outside the European Union provides both the means for supervision of legitimate trade in waste and a requirement to deal with illegal traffic. The Regulation defines cases of illegal traffic but does not deal directly with how Competent Authorities should assess its extent or the means which, in practice, CAs employ to combat it.