Final report - IMPEL-TFS NCP Exchange Days 2011

Executive summary:
The fifth NCP exchange days meeting took place on 28 and 29 September 2011
in Berlin, Germany and was hosted by the German Federal Environment
Agency. At the meeting, 35 people represented 25 environmental authorities in
21 European countries, the IMPEL-TFS Steering Committee and the IMPEL
secretariat at the NCP Exchange Days. The main goals of the exchange days are
to strengthen the network of NCPs involved in the enforcement of the WSR, to
exchange enforcement information, working methods and experiences
informally and to inform participants on new developments.
On the programme were practical waste shipment enforcement experiences
from Finland, Serbia and Bulgaria, an interactive session about used goods in
second hand cars, the Italian national waste shipments tracking system ‘SISTRI’
and an enforcement exercise about shipments of waste tar containing asphalt
granulate (TAG). The Scottish authorities presented their plans for the IMPEL-
TFS Enforcement Actions III Project. The group was furthermore updated on
running projects within the IMPEL TFS cluster. The new IMPEL chair of the
Board Ms. Zofia Tucinska joined the session and introduced herself to the NCPs.
The IMPEL-TFS NCPs were recommended to gather and describe practical
ship dismantling cases in each country in order to prepare an overview of
(anonymous) ship dismantling cases in Europe in one document, collect the
questions from the TFS network about the End of Waste criteria and to share
the concern of the implementation and compliance with regulators and the
European Commission and t take up the invitation for comments on the issues
that were discussed during the WSR Correspondent meeting.
The IMPEL-TFS Steering Committee was asked to support the preparation of
a document with a collection of practical (anonymous) ship dismantling cases to
share with the international actors who are involved in improving the control on
this situation and preventing illegal shipments, to support the preparation of a
document with a collection of questions from the TFS network about the End of
Waste criteria and to prepare a new draft of the internal rules of IMPEL-TFS.
IMPEL was invited to support the project proposals of the TFS cluster including
all involved actors in the WSR enforcement field and the new internal rules (to
be developed) of the TFS cluster.
The European Commission was invited to support the TFS cluster on the
issues that are raised by NCPs on topics such as ship dismantling, used items in
second hand vehicles etc., to create clarity on the policy for transboundary
shipments of shredded fridges plastic scrap with high and low ODS
contamination in the isolation foam and to assist the TFS network in dealing
with the End of Waste criteria in practice.
Disclaimer:
This report is the result of a project within the IMPEL network. The content does
not necessarily represent the view of the national administrations or the
European Commission.
IMPEL-TFS NCP Exchange Days FINAL Report 4/46
28- 29 September 2011 – Berlin, Germany January 2012