Helsinki, 13 February 2018 – In an EU/EEA-wide project of ECHA’s Enforcement Forum, inspectors found hundreds of consumer products with illegal amounts of restricted chemicals. Every fifth toy inspected contained high levels of restricted phthalates. The project report shows a relatively high number of products on the European market containing chemicals that are restricted under… [Read more]
Public Consultation on the Evaluation of the Waste Shipment Regulation
Article 60(2a) of Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 on shipments of waste (Waste Shipment Regulation) calls upon the Commission to carry out a review of this Regulation by the end of 31/12/2020. In accordance with the Better Regulation Guidelines, an evaluation is the first step in this process. The purpose of the evaluation of the Regulation… [Read more]
Strategies and minimum criteria for enforcement of Chemical Regulations
The Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement (Forum) is a network of authorities responsible for the enforcement of the REACH, CLP and PIC regulations in the EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Last December Forum publised a document on strategies and minimum criteria for enforcement of Chemical Regulations. This high level document provides a framework… [Read more]
Irish Environmental Protection Agency launches “National Waste Statistics” web resource
The Irish EPA launched a new National Waste Statistics web resource, providing: One online location for national waste statistics for Ireland; Accessible content, so that users can perform their own analysis; Easy to use interactive graphs and charts. The new web resource replaces the EPA’s biennial National Waste Report as the primary source of waste… [Read more]
Portuguese Environmental Inspectorate hosts first IMPEL workshop on use of satellite images for environmental inspections
In December 2017, the Portuguese Environmental Inspectorate hosted an IMPEL workshop aiming to share procedures and practices to be applied by the entities that use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and satellite images in environmental inspections. Topics related to the acquisition of remotely geographic information through UAV, such as drones, were addressed, as well as data… [Read more]
Closing landfills in Romania – benefitting from Ireland’s experience thanks to Commission’s peer-to-peer learning tool
The first environmental expertise exchange financed through the TAIEX-EIR Peer 2 Peer tool is took place on 22-24 January. Following the request of Romanian authorities, the Commission has identified Irish experts to advise their Romanian counterparts. More peer learning projects with other EU countries, regions and cities on a broad range of environmental implementation challenges are in… [Read more]
First Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species
Harmonised, representative data on the state of biological invasions remain inadequate at country and global scales, particularly for taxa that affect biodiversity and ecosystems. Information is not readily available in a form suitable for policy and reporting. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) provides the first country-wise checklists of introduced (naturalised) and… [Read more]
European Commission published Action Plan to increase compliance with EU environmental rules
On 18 January 2018, the European Commission adopted a 9-point Action Plan to increase compliance with and improve governance on EU environmental rules on activities. The actions will be implemented over 2018-2019 with the help of EU countries and European networks of environmental agencies, inspectors, auditors, police, prosecutors and judges. The actions aim to: help… [Read more]
New Environmental Inspection Application: Watch-IT
A new mobile application was launched today: Watch-IT: Waste and Chemicals Inspection Tool. The app aims to support environmental inspectors and law enforcement officers to perform inspection of waste and chemicals. It concerns those waste streams and chemicals that are covered by the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and related regional agreements. The app, which… [Read more]
DOTCOM project comes to an end
The overall objective of DOTCOM Waste is to increase the capabilities of law enforcement agencies (LEAs), customs and port authorities, environmental agencies, and prosecutors to fight cross-border waste crime more cost effectively. IMPEL was a member of the high-level advisory board, established to act as a soundboard for the activities and directions of the project…. [Read more]
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