European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law
More than 15 years after the emanation of several major Directives, including the Water Framework Directive (WFD), Directives on Nitrates, Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, as well as the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (IPPC)… [Read more]
In the beginning of 2018, China – as part of an environmental reform movement designed to deal with its own growing waste problems – acted on its import ban on 24 types of recyclable materials, including recycled plastics. Having imported about 45% of… [Read more]
The main objective of this project is to contribute to the continuing development of capacity within IMPEL, to the gather forces and to share experience between MS to assure proper implementation and enforcement of the Nature directives and to promote… [Read more]
The Council Conclusions on countering environmental crime (8 December 2016) have recognised the role of IMPEL in countering Environmental Crimes, but a common definition of “water crimes” is a challenging task. Furthermore, water-related crimes are of… [Read more]
The IRI scheme is a voluntary scheme providing for informal reviews of environmental authorities in IMPEL Member countries. It was set up to implement the European Parliament and Council Recommendation (2001/331/EC) providing for minimum criteria for e… [Read more]
The implementation of the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking requires broad support, not just from the EU institutions, but also the EU agencies – Europol and Eurojust –, the Member States and their relevant agencies, the EU delegations, Membe… [Read more]
Besides the IMPEL Review Inititative (IRI), founded on the cooperation of IMPEL Members, from different Members States (MS), to foster the process of implementation of the European Environmental Legislation through a peer-to-peer approach, more than on… [Read more]
According to the WEEE directive 2012/19/EU (respectively the implemented national law: e.g. ElektroG in Germany) every producer of electrical and electronic equipment has to be registered in the national register (Germany: stiftung elektro-altgeräte re… [Read more]
The IMPEL network has grown significantly since 2008 when it became an independent Association registered under Belgian Law. In 2008 there were 38 member authorities in 2008 versus 51 in 2016. However, there are still significant gaps in IMPEL’s member… [Read more]
In the last several years IMPEL and the European Commission have issued their positions concerning capacity building and consequently different IMPEL projects are now taking the initiative to develop their ideas on how to support its members in impleme… [Read more]