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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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Bendras IMPEL projekto "Jūriniai pasienio transektai-MTT" ir LIFE Conceptu Maris projekto seminaras
12 May, 2023
Jau daugelį metų kelios mokslinių tyrimų įstaigos vykdo banginių stebėjimą, naudodamos didelius laivus ir keltus kaip stebėjimo platformą. Labai svarbu, kad visi skirtingų mokslinių tyrimų įstaigų grupių vadovai susitiktų ir stiprintų bendradarbiavimą, geriausią praktiką, tobulintų bendrą mokslinių tyrimų ir stebėsenos protokolą bei plėstų tyrimų aprėptį. IMPEL Europe Jūrinio tarpvalstybinio transekto (MTT) projekto tikslas - sujungti du tinklus (Viduržemio jūros ir Atlanto vandenyno), išplečiant tinklus į pietines Viduržemio jūros regiono šalis, kad būtų sustiprintas aplinkosaugos teisės aktų įgyvendinimas Europoje.
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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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Briuselyje įvyko IMPEL Pramonės ir oro ekspertų grupės valdymo komiteto susitikimas su Europos Komisija
10 Apr, 2023
Balandžio 3-4 d. Briuselyje susitiko visi ekspertų grupės "Pramonė ir oras" darbo grupių vadovai. Jie aptarė savo grupių pažangą ir surengė smegenų šturmą dėl kito 2025-2027 m. projekto ciklo. Kitais mėnesiais iki vasaros dauguma darbo grupių surengs F2F susitikimus, o daugelis jų taip pat organizuos apsilankymą vietoje arba bendrą patikrinimą. Daugelis jų taip pat netrukus po posėdžio surengs trumpą internetinį seminarą, prie kurio galės prisijungti visi IMPEL nariai, todėl sekite IMPEL naujienas. Jei jus domina kuri nors tema, kreipkitės į darbo grupės vadovą. Darbo grupių vadovai taip pat kalbėjo apie 2023 m. spalio 17-18 d. Štutgarte vyksiantį mišrų ekspertų grupės susitikimą, kuriame susitiks visos darbo grupės.
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