Performance indicators for environmental inspection systems

This document is the final report of a 2008 IMPEL project focusing on developing performance indicators for environmental inspectorates, specifically related to the Recommendation on Minimum Criteria for Environmental Inspections (RMCEI). The project involved two workshops with participants from various European countries. The report outlines the scope, existing indicator systems in different countries, and criteria for selecting indicators. The project identified a short list of input, output, and outcome indicators for further analysis in a follow-up project. The report concludes by emphasizing the need to refine definitions and collect data to evaluate the selected indicators' effectiveness.

This document, the final report of a 2009 IMPEL project, examines the development of performance indicators for environmental inspection systems in European Union countries. The project focused on refining and testing ten potential indicators, including input, output, and outcome measures. A pilot study involving several countries/regions highlighted challenges in achieving comparability and data availability. The report concludes that the proposed indicators primarily assess inspectorate capacity rather than effectiveness, recommends combining qualitative and quantitative assessments, and suggests future work on outcome indicators at the international level.

This document is the final report of a 2012 IMPEL project that investigated the use of assessment tools to evaluate environmental inspectorates across the European Union. The project examined various indicators and assessment tools for three types of assessment: self-assessment, external verification, and comparison between inspectorates. The report concludes that while numerical indicators are useful for internal performance management, they are not suitable for comparing inspectorates due to differing operational contexts. However, non-numerical indicators can be used to verify minimum operational standards, and limited comparison may be possible using outcome indicators to share best practices. The report discourages using outcome indicators for ranking inspectorates, as this could lead to unfair comparisons and disputes.