Projects - Prioritising

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.
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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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A key issue of the “Recommendation on minimum criteria for environmental inspections” (RMCEI) and the IMPEL “Step by step guidance book for planning of environmental inspection” is the prioritisation of environmental inspections. An essential part of this prioritisation is the assessment of the probability of environmental disruptions caused by industrial or comparable activities. These risk assessments also play a key role in inspection planning according to the Seveso II Directive and...
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Practitioners from 24 IMPEL member countries participated in the workshops and the training sessions. All the objectives were delivered through the products described in the main report. The resulting conclusions led to recommendations for future IMPEL work and follow up activities.

Whilst managing the project useful lessons were learned which are shared herein.

In general the outcome of this...

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In 2006 the Netherlands led an IMPEL Comparison Programme Doing the right things I. One of the main aims of this project was to explore how inspection authorities set priorities with regard to their tasks and activities, being one of the key steps in setting up inspection plans. An important recommendation of this project was to develop a practical guide on planning of environmental inspections, that would be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the different needs...

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This project report presents the main outcomes of the IMPEL Comparison Programme on prioritising environmental inspections, also called “doing the right things”. Within the project 25 European countries participated by means of completing a questionnaire on prioritising environmental inspections, and more in particular about inspection plans and inspection programmes, all within the framework of the “Recommendation for Minimum Criteria on Environmental Inspections”. Representatives of 24...
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