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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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Skupna delavnica projekta IMPEL Marine Transborder Transects-MTT in projekta LIFE Conceptu Maris
12 May, 2023
Več raziskovalnih organov že vrsto let spremlja kitov in delfinov z uporabo velikih plovil in trajektov kot opazovalnih platform. Obstaja velika potreba, da se vsi vodje skupin različnih raziskovalnih organov sestanejo in okrepijo sodelovanje, najboljše prakse, izboljšajo skupne raziskave in skupni protokol spremljanja ter razširijo obseg raziskav. Cilj projekta IMPEL Europe Marine Transborder Transect (MTT) je povezati obe mreži (sredozemsko in atlantsko) ter ju razširiti na južne države Sredozemlja, da bi okrepili izvajanje okoljske zakonodaje v Evropi.
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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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Usmerjevalni odbor skupine strokovnjakov za industrijo in zrak IMPEL se je sestal v Bruslju in se srečal z Evropsko komisijo
10 Apr, 2023
3. in 4. aprila so se v Bruslju sestali vsi vodje delovnih skupin strokovne skupine za industrijo in zrak. Razpravljali so o napredku svojih skupin in se pogovarjali o naslednjem projektnem ciklu v letih 2025-2027. V naslednjih mesecih pred poletjem bo večina delovnih skupin imela sestanke F2F, številne med njimi pa bodo organizirale tudi obisk na kraju samem ali skupni pregled. Veliko jih bo kmalu po sestanku organiziralo tudi kratek spletni seminar, ki se mu bodo lahko pridružili vsi člani skupine IMPEL, zato spremljajte novice skupine IMPEL. Če vas tema zanima, se obrnite na vodjo delovne skupine. Vodje delovnih skupin so spregovorili tudi o hibridnem srečanju strokovne skupine 17. in 18. oktobra 2023 v Stuttgartu, na katerem se bodo zbrale vse delovne skupine.
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