Tools

Guidance compliance: Company Management System (CMS) assistance
Traditional supervision has several shortcomings. Although certain regulatees need a deterrent approach, most regulatees are willing to comply to public regulations. Some of them, especially the bigger regulated organizations, are responsive to new forms of regulation. For these companies, a traditional command and control approach is not very effective because it does not recognise the company’s own capabilities and may undermine the intrinsic motivation.
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iDepend Modelling Tool
iDEPEND is a dependency modeling tool that can help regulators identify intervention strategies and approaches in order to improve the environmental compliance behaviour of operators. At the same time the tool analyses the possible succesfulness of the selected approach.
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Checklist for assessing legislation on practicability and enforceability
In order to encourage policymakers, legislators and stakeholders to devote more attention to likely problems of practicability in implementation and enforceability throughout the legislative process, with a view to anticipating and remedying practicability and enforceability problems through a pro-active approach, IMPEL initiated a project aimed at producing a practical checklist to assess the practicability and enforceability of existing and new legislation with the aim of improving the overall implementation of EU environmental law in the Member States.
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Neighbourhood dialogue – Toolkit
This document is aimed at authorities and companies who want to use or promote a direct dialogue approach to solving environmental conflicts between residents and industrial sites. A number of Member States have been involved in a series of projects on establishing neighbourhood dialogues, which collected and evaluated examples of how environmental conflicts between companies and their neighbourhoods could be solved by dialogue.
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