The European Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL), the European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment (ENPE) and the Environmental Crime Network (EnviCrimeNet) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding and together with EUFJE restated their full commitment to continue to work together involving all the actors of the compliance chain, promoting and sharing practices and work on solutions to strengthen the fight against environmental crime.
The Chairs of the 3 signing Networks pictured here, Marco Falconi for IMPEL, Rob de Rijk for ENPE and Ondrej Koporec and Sébastian Nochez for EnvirCrimeNet signed the memorandum at the start of the 4 Networks Conference in Bratislava. The networks are convinced of the importance of contributing to the protection of the environment and working to strengthen the effective implementation and enforcement of European environmental and related criminal law and the compliance chain as a whole, by increasing:
a) The knowledge on the implementation of environmental legislation, and its dissemination;
b) The cooperation and collaboration between public entities with responsibilities on the implementation of environmental legislation; and
c) The practical and effective implementation of the knowledge acquired, at EU, national and sub-national levels.