Projects

Implementation challenge 2021

IMPEL has carried out a few similar surveys in recent years which gave a great deal of useful information. The situation, has however, changed dramatically with the declaration of a climate emergency by many countries, a huge rise in awareness on plas… [Read more]

Climate Emergency Umbrella Programme

The declaration of a climate emergency (as well as an increasing awareness of the impact of plastic, biodiversity decline and now the impacts of a global pandemic & potential green recovery) are having a profound impact on policy, how we regulate a… [Read more]

Compliance Assurance Virtual Conference

Knowledge of the successful implementation of many of regulatory enforcement tools is often limited within the regulatory community. The ability to showcase these tools and approaches is needed to help make regulatory bodies more effective and efficie… [Read more]

The Big/Little TFS project

Throughout several years and multiple IMPEL projects the initiators of the project have identified that multiple TFS inspectors together have had thousands of inspections in the field of TFS. All these inspections have boiled down to an extensive knowl… [Read more]

Tackling illegal groundwater drilling and abstractions (TIGDA)

Groundwater is and remains a valuable resource for the environment and different human activities. Environmental and anthropogenic pressures on this resource include amongst others: climate change (drought, flooding, etc.), (over)abstraction and pollut… [Read more]

Water and Land Remediation

Contaminated sites management is a process that has different speeds in the Members States. This is due partly to differences in legislation that would mean different definitions as for making some examples “potentially contaminated sites”, “contaminat… [Read more]

BIOVAL – Ecosystems Recovery Calculation

There is still a lack of awareness of the impact of wildlife crime to ecosystems and protected species. The way to calculate this damage in order to become a useful and reliable instrument during prosecution and during court cases is a topic that needs… [Read more]

Europe Marine Transborder Transect

For many years, several research bodies have worked on monitoring cetaceans using large vessels and ferries as platform of observations. The two main European networks are the FLT MED NETwork led by ISPRA and the Atlantic Network led by ORCA (which pub… [Read more]

Strategic Network Collaboration

A large part of the work of the IMPEL Waste & TFS cluster is focusing on compliance of trans-boundary movement of waste. Because a large volume of waste shipments is destined for countries outside Europe it is important to have good contacts with t… [Read more]

Trend Reversal in Groundwater Pollution

Art. 4 of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) obliges Member States, among other things, to protect, enhance and restore all bodies of groundwater with the aim of achieving good groundwater status by December 2015, and to implement the measures necessa… [Read more]