RMCEI

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 [...]

IRI Iceland

  • Number: 2012/02
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries. It was set up to implement the European Parliament and Council Recommendation (2001/331/EC) providing for minimum criteria for environmental inspections (RMCEI), where it states: “Member States should assist each other administratively in operating this Recommendation.  The establishment by Member States in cooperation with IMPEL of reporting and advice schemes relating...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Iceland

IRI Italy (Lombardia)

  • Number: 2012/01
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries. It was set up to implement the European Parliament and Council Recommendation (2001/331/EC) providing for minimum criteria for environmental inspections (RMCEI), where it states: “Member States should assist each other administratively in operating this Recommendation.  The establishment by Member States in cooperation with IMPEL of reporting and advice schemes relating...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Italy (Lombardia)

Doing the Right Things for Waste Shipment Inspections (DTRT-TFS), phase 2

  • Number: 2012/14
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
This IMPEL-project explores the usefulness of the DTRT methodology for waste shipment inspections with the ultimate aim of providing a practical tool, based on the DTRT Guidance Book, which can help improve the organisation of waste shipment inspections by competent authorities in the IMPEL member countries. Three competent authorities from...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Netherlands

Setting Inspection Targets and Monitoring Performance, phase 2

  • Number: 2012/05
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2012
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:
  • Netherlands and Portugal

easyTools workshop – Risk Assessment in Inspection Planning

[ November 3, 2011 to November 4, 2011. ] A project workshop for the easyTools project has been scheduled for the 3 and 4 November 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

European Commission conference: “Implementation of EU environment legislation – how we can do better”

A stakeholders conference was held in Brussels on 15 June to discuss and find ways of improving implementation of environment legislation. Opened by Director-General of DG Environment, Karl Falkenberg and closed by Environment Commissioner, Janez Potocnik, the conference touched upon the main implementation challenges, how to better harness shared knowledge and information systems in understanding [...]

Development of an easy and flexible risk assessment tool as a part of the planning of environmental inspections linked to European environmental law and the RMCEI (easyTools), phase 2

  • Number: 2011/05
  • Status: Running
  • Period: 2011
The aim of the new project is to develop a flexible and user friendly programme for the risk assessment within the planning of environmental inspections as an application from the internet. The risk assessment tool will be part of the “planning cycle” described in the “Step by step guidance book for planning of environmental inspection” developed by the “Doing The Right Things” project (DTRT). It will take into account the needs of the IMPEL member countries as well as the requirements...
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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany

Support for the new IRI scheme

  • Number: 2010/03
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
The Impel review initiative was designed in 2000 to test a “voluntary scheme for reporting and offering advice on inspectorates and inspection procedures” and thereby to implement a requirement of the RMCEI. After 10 reviews and an evaluation in 2003, it was clear that it was becoming harder and harder to find new volunteers to host an IRI as it was to find team leaders and rapporteurs for the reviews.  It was necessary to review the IRI and find ways to improve participation. The project...
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  • Lead Country:
  • UK

Development of an easy and flexible risk assessment tool as a part of the planning of environmental inspections linked to European environmental law and the RMCEI (easyTools), phase 1

  • Number: 2010/06
  • Status: Finalised
  • Period: 2010
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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  • Lead Country:
  • Germany