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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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Workshop conjunto do projecto IMPEL Marine Transborder Transects-MTT e do projecto LIFE Conceptu Maris
12 May, 2023
Durante muitos anos, vários organismos de investigação trabalharam na monitorização de cetáceos utilizando grandes navios e ferries como plataforma de observação. Existe uma grande necessidade de todos os chefes de equipa dos diferentes organismos de investigação se reunirem e reforçarem a colaboração, as melhores práticas e a melhoria da investigação comum e do protocolo de monitorização partilhado, bem como de expandirem a cobertura dos estudos. O projecto Transecto Marinho Transfronteiriço (MTT) da IMPEL Europa visa ligar as duas redes (Mediterrâneo e Atlântico), alargando-as aos países do sul da região mediterrânica, a fim de reforçar a aplicação da legislação ambiental na Europa.
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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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A IMPEL Industry and Air Expert Team Steering Committee reuniu-se em Bruxelas e teve uma reunião com a Comissão Europeia
10 Apr, 2023
Nos dias 3 e 4 de Abril, todos os líderes dos grupos de trabalho da Expert Team Industry and Air reuniram-se em Bruxelas. Discutiram o progresso dos seus grupos e tiveram uma tempestade de ideias sobre o próximo ciclo de projectos em 2025-2027. Nos meses seguintes antes do Verão, a maioria dos grupos de trabalho terá as suas reuniões F2F e muitos deles organizarão também uma visita ao local ou uma inspecção conjunta. Muitos deles organizarão também um pequeno webinar logo após a sua reunião, onde todos os membros da IMPEL se poderão juntar, por isso, fiquem atentos às notícias da IMPEL. Se estiver interessado num assunto, por favor contacte o líder do grupo de trabalho. Os líderes dos grupos de trabalho também falaram sobre a Reunião da Equipa de Peritos híbrida nos dias 17 e 18 de Outubro de 2023 em Estugarda, onde todos os grupos de trabalho se reunirão.
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