On the 5th of July a successful meeting took place between the Croatian Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Directorate for Inspection Affairs and the IMPEL Board, hosted by Mr. Dario Matanovic, Minister Assistant. National representatives of each of the IMPEL Expert Teams – Air and Industry, Water and Land, Waste and TFS, Nature Protection… [Read more]
Announcement 2017 IMPEL Water & Land Conference
IMPEL’s 2017 Water and Land conference will take place 4 and 5 October in Cagliari, Italy. This years’ theme will be “Land use and water quality: which interconnections?” Threats Water, as one of the most precious goods for life, is endangered by multiple threats, often descending from improper land use and illegal conducts. Land is… [Read more]
IRI programme yields concrete improvements to implementation and enforcement of environmental law
Changes in legislation in Romania, the introduction of thematic inspection strategies in Austria’s Styria region and the beginnings of performance indicators in the Czech Environmental Inspectorate are all examples as a direct result of the recommendations made by the IMPEL Review Initiative programme (IRI) over the last few years. A workshop on the 07/08 June… [Read more]
Successful seminar ‘lessons learnt from industrial accidents’
On 31 May and 1 June 2017 the Bureau for Analysis of Industrial Risks and Pollution (BARPI), operating within the French Ministry of Environment, organised the 12th seminar on ‘lessons learnt from industrial accidents’ in Lyon, France. The seminar was attended by over 200 participants representing 24 nationalities. About sixteen recent accidents with a broad… [Read more]
Position paper on ‘Environmental Compliance Assurance’
Earlier this year, the European Commission launched the Environmental Compliance Assurance initiative. This initiative sets out actions to support Member States in how they promote, monitor and enforce compliance by economic operators and other duty-holders with EU environment law. During a stakeholders conference on 31 of January, followed by a workshop on tackling waste and… [Read more]
IMPEL’s first conference on environmental data analytics
The analysis of big data in the planning of regulatory activities of environmental authorities, including the area of compliance assurance is becoming increasingly important. Setting justifiable priorities and doing the right things on the basis of the outcomes of proper data analyses are crucial for the responsible organisation to work in an efficient and effective… [Read more]
Tackling waste and wildlife crime and non-compliance: what is necessary?
On the 20th March 2017 IMPEL representatives participated in a workshop on tackling non-compliance with waste and wildlife legislation. Organised by the European Commission (DG ENV) under the scope of the Environmental Compliance Assurance Initiative, presentations were delivered by IMPEL, EnviCrimeNet, The European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment – ENPE, European Union Forum of… [Read more]
IMPEL launches new survey on main challenges to implement environmental law
Today, IMPEL is launching a new survey of its members seeking to understand the main challenges to good implementation of EU environmental law. The information gathered will be used by IMPEL to identify how to support its member authorities by developing model strategies, tools and projects for more efficient compliance assurance. The implementation challenge survey… [Read more]
Registration for EU Environmental Enforcement Networks open!
On 20 & 21 September 2017, the second environmental enforcements network conference will take place in Oxford, UK. This is a follow up to the 2016 conference in Utrecht, and will be a collaboration between IMPEL, ENPE (the European Network of Prosecutors for the environment) and EnviCrimeNet (A network of Police Officers focused on tackling… [Read more]
Drones, court cases and data visualisation
During the annual best practice meeting of the TFS Enforcement Actions project again facilitated practical experiences and in-depth knowledge exchange on countries efforts to deter and detect illegal shipments of waste. The programme included experiences from a number of countries on recent cases they encountered. For example Mr Jonas Ludlin from Sweden presented their pilot… [Read more]
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