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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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  • Joint Workshop by the IMPEL Marine Transborder Transects-MTT project and the LIFE Conceptu Maris project

    12 May, 2023

    For many years, several research bodies have worked on monitoring cetaceans using large vessels and ferries as platform of observations. There is a strong need for all the team leaders of the different research bodies to meet and strengthen the collaboration, the best practices, and the improvement of the common research and shared monitoring protocol as well as expanding the survey coverage. IMPEL Europe Marine Transborder Transect (MTT) Project aims to link together the two networks (Mediterranean and Atlantic) expanding the networks to the southern countries of the Mediterranean Region in order to strengthen the implementation of environmental law in Europe.

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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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  • IMPEL Industry and Air Expert Team -ryhmän johtoryhmä kokoontui Brysselissä ja piti kokouksen Euroopan komission kanssa.

    10 Apr, 2023

    Huhtikuun 3. ja 4. päivänä kaikki teollisuus- ja ilma-alan asiantuntijaryhmän työryhmien johtajat kokoontuivat Brysselissä. He keskustelivat ryhmiensä edistymisestä ja kävivät aivoriihen seuraavasta hankesyklistä vuosina 2025-2027. Seuraavina kuukausina ennen kesää useimmat työryhmät pitävät F2F-kokouksensa, ja monet niistä järjestävät myös vierailun paikan päällä tai yhteisen tarkastuksen. Monet työryhmistä järjestävät myös lyhyen webinaarin pian kokouksen jälkeen, johon kaikki IMPELin jäsenet voivat osallistua, joten pidä silmällä IMPELin uutisia. Jos olet kiinnostunut jostakin aiheesta, ota yhteyttä työryhmän vetäjään. Työryhmien johtajat puhuivat myös 17. ja 18. lokakuuta 2023 Stuttgartissa pidettävästä asiantuntijaryhmien hybridikokouksesta, jossa kaikki työryhmät kokoontuvat yhteen.

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