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This final report from the IMPEL Big/Little TFS Project details issues encountered by European inspectors enforcing environmental laws regarding transboundary waste shipments (TFS). The report, based on a survey of eleven member states and subsequent interviews, highlights challenges in interpreting and applying legislation, particularly regarding green listed waste and traceability. Key areas for improvement include updating guidelines, clarifying legal definitions, increasing cooperation among authorities, and addressing practical issues at inspection sites. While identifying numerous problems, the project aims to secure an extension to propose solutions.

This document is a survey report that identifies the challenges in the practical implementation of EU environmental law. The report, conducted by the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL), found that the biggest challenges to implementation include waste management, water pollution, climate change, and staffing difficulties.

This document summarizes the key findings of the Implementation Challenge 2021 survey, highlighting the main challenges faced by environmental regulators in implementing EU environmental law. These challenges included waste crime, site abandonment, trans-frontier shipment of waste, single-use plastics, climate change, protection of land and water, soils, nature protection, and environmental damage and restoration.

This handbook explores the collaboration between public environmental inspections and private accredited certification of environmental management systems (EMS) like ISO 14001 and EMAS. The handbook provides information about environmental regulations, inspections, and private certification. It also explains how environmental inspections can benefit from private certification and offers strategies and tools to help implement this collaboration.

This document is a conference report that summarizes the IMPEL Mini Conference on Compliance Assurance 2022, which focused on compliance promotion as a key strategy for ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, alongside compliance monitoring and follow-up & enforcement. The report highlights the importance of a holistic and integrated approach to compliance assurance, emphasizing the use of data collection and analysis to develop appropriate actions.