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IMPEL Nature Protection Expert Team Meeting was held on 20 April 2023
01 Jun, 2023
IMPEL Nature Protection Expert Team Meeting took place on 20 April 2023 in Rome. Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) hosted the event. 30 representatives from 18 countries attended the meeting on site and many more joined online.
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Joint Inspection by IMPEL Public Nuisance Project Team
01 Jun, 2023
Under the IMPEL Supporting IED Implementation Project, Public Nuisance Working Group organised a Project Team Meeting and a joint inspection at a pulp and paper mill in Finland on 15-16 May 2023. Inspectors from Portugal, Spain, Germany and Finland joined.
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IMPEL NPRI Project with North Macedonia and Serbia
26 May, 2023
IMPEL’s National Peer Review Initiative (NPRI) lays the foundation for the development of autonomous peer review activities in national networks of environmental authorities and agencies. The NPRI approach can be used as a flexible tool to improve one's own performance through dialogue, joint confrontation and exchange of good practices between peers belonging to the same network or to a group of stakeholders dealing with the same issues. It is a powerful tool that supports the implementation of the EU ECA initiative, mainly through its potential to implement good and best practices and homogenisation.
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Съвместен семинар на проекта IMPEL Marine Transborder Transects-MTT и проекта LIFE Conceptu Maris
12 May, 2023
В продължение на много години няколко изследователски организации работят по наблюдението на китоподобните, използвайки големи плавателни съдове и фериботи като платформа за наблюдение. Необходимо е всички ръководители на екипи от различните изследователски органи да се срещнат и да засилят сътрудничеството, най-добрите практики и подобряването на общия протокол за изследвания и мониторинг, както и да разширят обхвата на проучванията. Проектът IMPEL Europe Marine Transborder Transect (MTT) има за цел да свърже двете мрежи (Средиземноморска и Атлантическа), като разшири мрежите към южните страни от Средиземноморския регион, за да се засили прилагането на законодателството в областта на околната среда в Европа.
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Joint Inspection by IMPEL Industrial Rearing of Poultry and Pigs Project Team
11 May, 2023
Industrial Rearing of Pigs and Poultry Subproject under IMPEL Supporting IED Implementation Project had a project team hybrid meeting on 3rd, and a joint inspection at a sow farm on 4th, of May 2023 in Murcia, Spain. On the part of IMPEL environmental officers from Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Poland, Belgium and the European Commission joined the meeting. Also officers from Estonia, Austria, Denmark, Albania, Italy and Slovenia participated online in the working group.
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BIOVAL TENDER Deadline May 19th
09 May, 2023
The European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE) is an international non-profit association. The objective of the Forum is to contribute to better implementation and enforcement of national, European and international environmental law: - by contributing to a better knowledge of environmental law among judges, - by sharing case law, and - by sharing experience in the area of training of the judiciary in environmental law. The association is registered in Belgium and its legal seat is in Brussels. Its working languages are Dutch, English and French.
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IMPEL TIGDA Project Tender – Closing date 26 May 2023
05 May, 2023
IMPEL Tackling illegal groundwater drilling and abstractions (TIGDA) project aims to share knowledge and good practices on how to manage groundwater drilling and abstractions. This would include specific permitting conditions, accreditations as well as enforcement tools and methods in place in different member states to reduce illegal drilling and groundwater (over)abstraction thus helping in attaining a good quantitative and qualitative state of groundwater bodies.
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IMPEL Trend reversal in groundwater pollution project presented to CIS groundwater experts
27 Apr, 2023
The IMPEL Project Trend reversal in groundwater pollution was presented on 19 April by videocall to the 43rd CIS Groundwater Working Group meeting which took place in Uppsala (Sweden).
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State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine joins IMPEL
19 Apr, 2023
State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine joins IMPEL
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Управителният комитет на експертния екип по промишлеността и въздуха на IMPEL се срещна в Брюксел и проведе среща с Европейската комисия
10 Apr, 2023
На 3 и 4 април всички ръководители на работни групи от Експертния екип "Промишленост и въздух" се срещнаха в Брюксел. Те обсъдиха напредъка на своите групи и проведоха мозъчна атака за следващия проектен цикъл през 2025-2027 г. През следващите месеци преди лятото повечето работни групи ще проведат своите F2F срещи, а много от тях ще организират и посещение на място или съвместна инспекция. Много от тях ще организират и кратък уебинар малко след срещата си, към който ще могат да се присъединят всички членове на IMPEL, така че следете новините на IMPEL. Ако проявявате интерес към дадена тема, моля, свържете се с ръководителя на работната група. Ръководителите на работните групи говориха и за хибридната среща на експертния екип на 17 и 18 октомври 2023 г. в Щутгарт, на която ще се съберат всички работни групи.
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