Inspection | IMPEL

Achieving better compliance in the agricultural sector through networking and partnership working of environmental and agricultural inspectorates

Number: 2013/16
Status: Running
Period: 2013

The European Commission identified this project area as a priority to IMPEL during a joint meeting in Brussels on 14/09/12. They highlighted that there are poor levels of compliance with the Water Framework Directive (diffuse pollution & illegal abstraction) and the Nitrates Directive and that a gap has been identified between “environmental” and “agricultural” inspectorates. As a result they wished to see enhanced networking of different regulatory agencies to achieve higher levels...
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Lead Country:
Denmark and UK (Scotland)

IMPEL project presented at IWA World congress on Water, Climate and Energy

Point source discharges and effluents from industrial activities are amongst the main reason across EU Member States which create significant pressures on the aquatic ecosystem. The IMPEL project, “Linking the implementation of the Water Framework Directive to the implementation of the IPPC Directive,” has developed two reports on linkages between both directives and on challenges and [...]

Commission releases Communication on implementation and enforcement of EU environment law

The European Commission published a Communication on Wednesday 07 March in response to a December 2010 Environment Council request that member states and the Commission enhance and improve the implementation and enforcement of EU environment legislation. The Communication focuses on knowledge about the state of the environment and how to tackle challenges on the ground. The Commission says that better access [...]

Environmental inspections of industrial installations in accordance with the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED)

Number: 2012/06
Status: Running
Period: 2012

On 6 January 2011 the Industrial Emissions Directive entered into force, and its provisions listed in Article 80(1) have to be transposed into national law within two years. The IED sets new requirements on the inspection of industrial installations as described in Article 23 of the Directive. The obligations on routine environmental inspections constitute a new challenge for the EU member states, but IMPEL already has done some work in this field: e. g. Guidance Book on Environmental Inspections,...
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Lead Country:
Germany & Scotland

Reinforcement programme on inspection skills according to Landfill sites in IMPEL member countries, phase 2

Number: 2012/03
Status: Running
Period: 2012

Improving implementation of EU law is a high priority objective of both the European Commission and IMPEL. Questionnaires that were circulated within IMPEL in December 2010 and June 2011 showed that 50% of countries have a lack of knowledge to fulfil inspection requirements, specially on new-to-build landfill sites. There was strong support for the idea of exchanging knowledge and learning from each other. In European projects of landfill construction (based on European funding) it is obligatory...
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Lead Country:
Netherlands and Italy

Setting Inspection Targets and Monitoring Performance

Number: 2011/07
Status: Running
Period: 2011

In the IMPEL “Doing the right things” (DTRT) project, a Guidance Book was produced to assist environmental authorities plan inspections. The Guidance Book uses an Environmental Inspection Cycle that is divided into a number of connected steps of which planning is one step and performance monitoring is another step. According to the Guidance Book authorities should, as part of their inspection planning, define measurable targets on desired outputs and outcomes and...
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Lead Country:
Portugal

Linking the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to the implementation of the IPPC Directive, phase 1

Number: 2010/08
Status: Finalised
Period: 2010

An important objective of this project is to define the relationship (complementary and competition) between IPPC implementation and WFD implementation from the scope of permitting, enforcement and data collection. Also other relevant directives are taken into account e.g. priority substances directive (2008/106/EC) and urban waste water treatment directive (91/271/EC). Another goal is to make an inventory of problems and best practices in the member states, with...

Review of Compliance promotion, Inspections practices, and Enforcement for IPPC installations

Number: 2007/8
Status: Finalised
Period: 2007

This report summarizes the replies received from 25 Competent Authorities (CAs) in 16 different Member States (MS) to a questionnaire on the implementation of Article 14 of the IPPC Directive. Member States were asked to provide practical information on their inspection planning and practices and enforcement activities, which should ensure that IPPC installations are operated in compliance with the Directive's requirements. The responses received show that, although there is no explicit provision...
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Lead Country:
EC

INSPECTAN: Environmental Inspection Guidelines for the Tanning Industry

Number: 2004/14
Status: Finalised
Period: 2004

The present report originates from the results of a questionnaire, discussed in meetingsheld over the interval October 2004 – June 2005. The discussion concentrated on theeconomics; the production processes; laws and regulations; inspection procedures. The report is conceived as a tool for the public bodies involved in controls and inmonitoring activities on the tanning industry. To this end it collates the experiences ofseveral European contexts of the leather and tanning industry.
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Lead Country:
Italy

Information Exchange on e-Reporting

Number: 2003/15
Status: Finalised
Period: 2003

The project concluded that: The benefits accruing from e-reporting are better transparency and better quality information that is more easily analysed, manipulated and reported on to both institutional bodies and the public. There is no technological barrier to the implementation of e-reporting systems. The difficulties in implementing these systems relate to the specification of the information to be collected and identifying in advance the subsequent uses of this information. While e-reporting...
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Lead Country:
Ireland

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