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• The Waste Shipment Regulation – practical and enforceable?

  The Waste Shipment Regulation is a major challenge for Member States to implement. IEEP gathered the views and experience of IMPEL members on its practicability and enforceability, to help inform any future legislative development and aid competent authorities to work together to enhance their implementation of the Regulation.

• Water Scarcity Briefings

  Water scarcity is a major threat to Europe’s waters. Three briefings have been produced summarizing research on this issue and setting out the European policy context.

• Linking the Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive: Phase 2

  Integrating pollution control into river basin management is a major challenge. A report for IMPEL explores how Member States address this.

• Linking the Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive

  Integrating pollution control into river basin management is a major challenge. A new report for IMPEL explores how EU addresses this interaction.

• Assessing Environmental Management Capacity: Towards a Common Reference Framework

  Institutions in developing and transition countries face major challenges to ensure that they have sufficient capacity to implement environmental law. In order to provide a systematic approach to assessment ...

• Avenues for Improved Response to Environmental Offences in Kazakhstan

  Kazahstan has developed a series of laws and practices to deliver the objectives of environmental protection across a wide range of areas. However, the effectiveness of this legislation can depend upon ...

• Implementation and Enforcement Capacities in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia for the Environmental Acquis

  This report describes the existing administrative capacity for the implementation of the full range of EU environmental law in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It identifies the strengths and ...

• A Handbook of Environmental Protection and Enforcement

  Environmental Enforcement Authorities (EEAs), sometimes called Environmental Protection Agencies (EPAs), are the regulatory, monitoring and enforcement agencies of national, state/provincial and local ...

• Funding Environmental Compliance Assurance: Lessons Learned from International Experience, OECD

  Throughout the world, authorities responsible for enforcing environmental regulations and promoting compliance with environmental requirements are operating in the context of financial ...

• Packaging for Sustainability: Packaging in the Context of the Product, Supply Chain and Consumer Needs, A report for INCPEN

  The European Commission is taking a closer look at the Packaging Directive, ten years after its adoption, and has to present a report to the European Parliament in June 2005. To inform ...

• Simple is better, effective regulation for a more competitive Europe: The 1996 IPPC Directive

  This report examines the administrative burdens associated with the implementation of the IPPC Directive. It was written for the Dutch Ministry of the Environment to support discussion at a ...

• EP Briefing note: Analysis of progress and issues relating to the state of implementation of the IPPC Directive

  Implementation of the Integrated Pollution and Protection Control (IPPC) Directive has raised a number of issues that should be addressed: There is concern over the thresholds for ...

• ENAP Study - Linking EMS with Permitting, Inspection and Enforcement - A Final Report to the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment of the Netherlands (VROM)

  This report is a background study for the workshop - Connecting (Elements) of Company EMS with Permitting, Inspection and Enforcement – being held in London on the 12th to 13 June 2003 ...

• Joint Workshop to examine connections between Environmental Management Systems and Permitting, Inspection and Enforcement in Regulation - including the formal launch of the Remas project – Workshop Report

  This Workshop Report examines connections between Environmental Management Systems and Permitting, Inspection and Enforcement in Regulation - including the formal launch of the Remas ...

• Emissions Trading in NEC Substances (in particular NOx and SOx) Workshop Report, 21-22 November 2002, Kurhaus, The Hague/Scheveningen, Netherlands

  This report covers the first ENAP workshop on ‘Emissions trading in NEC substances, in particular NOx and SOx, held on 21 and 22 November 2002 in the Kurhaus in The Hague/Scheveningen, ...

• Industrial Regulation and Sustainable Development: A Report for the National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (NSCA)

  This report is produced for the NCSA's Commission on Industrial Regulation and Sustainable Development. The objective of this report is to describe the existing regulatory regimes and other ...

• EU Climate Policy and Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control, Clean Air and Environmental Protection (Journal of the National Society for Clean Air)

  Climate change policy documents at both the national and European levels have highlighted the potential role of the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) regime in tackling ...