This specific project aims to bring IMPEL and its infrastructure up to date, specifically the functionality of the website. Within the project, there is a need to advise and consult IMPEL on the further enhancement of the new IMPEL website, the integration of webtools developed within IMPEL activities and the useful features still to be… [Read more]

A new Chair and Vice Chairs were elected at the 22nd IMPEL General Assembly (GA) held last week. IMPEL has been working hard to implement new governance arrangements and has now filled all its key positions. Ana Garcia from IGAMAOT in Portugal was elected as Chair. Jean-Luc Perrin from the Ministry for ecological transition was… [Read more]

Online Workshop on End-of-waste and By-products: compliance with REACH was held on 25th November 2021, as part of the IMPEL Project Waste Management and Circular Economy. The workshop discussed when and how REACH comes into play when assessing by-product or end-of-waste status in practice and how operators and regulators can make sure that REACH is… [Read more]

The IMPEL Water and Land Expert Team is inviting you to their online Open Day on 26 January 2022 from 10.00 – 12.20 am CET. For more details, please see below and/or click here.

IMPEL has opened a tender for a travel service provider. This would be to provide a travel service and travel management for the Network. The full specification can be found here:Tender for Travel Service & Management Closing date is the 17th December 2021.

The UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from 31st of October to 12th of November 2021. The COP26 summit brought parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. On 10th of November, the Turkish Ministry… [Read more]

The European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment (EUFJE) was created in 2004. 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… [Read more]

Information on a partner network event. This second regional seminar will provide its participants from the Eastern Partner (EaP) and OECD economies an opportunity to share and discuss findings of two environmental compliance assurance reviews of EaP countries, of Armenia and the Republic of Moldova, that the OECD carried out in 2020‑2021. It will also… [Read more]