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)

This is a report of “easyTools”. The main objective of this project, executed in 2010 and 2011, was to develop an easy and flexible risk assessment tool as part of the planning of environmental inspections linked to European environmental law (IED and SEVESO) and the RMCEI. The annexes offer supplementary materials like the project's terms of reference for both years, progress reports, and a workshop report. Importantly, Annex 3 provides a detailed report on the questionnaire responses from various IMPEL member countries regarding their current risk assessment practices. This report highlights the diverse criteria and methods employed across Europe, illustrating the need for a more standardized approach.

Under the name ‘easyTools’ a project team, led by Germany, collected information on the risk assessments that are used across Europe. Based on this information a new rule based methodology was developed and tested, called Integrated Risk Assessment Method (IRAM). T

For several years IMPEL worked on the subject of inspection planning in the project Doing the right thing (DTRT). DTRT introduced the environmental inspection cycle. Important steps in that cycle are setting priorities and defining inspection targets and related performance indicators.