Final report - IMPEL-TFS NCP Exchange Days 2011

2 PROGRAMME
On the first day, the participants were welcomed by Ms. Susann Krause,
deputy head of the waste management section of the German Federal
Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt-UBA). The UBA hosted the
meeting in Berlin. The day started with a short introduction, a reminder
of the project goals and the results of the ‘NCP morning’ at the TFS
Conference in Kassel, April 2011. Practical waste shipment enforcement
experiences were then shared with the participants by Finland, Serbia
and Bulgaria. Also, the NCPs received an assignment to interview one
another and write a short article to compete for a first and second prize.
The winner was announced on the second day. Furthermore, Scottish
authorities, the new project manager of the IMPEL-TFS Enforcement
Actions III Project, presented their plans for the follow up of this
important European WSR enforcement project. Then Germany led an
interactive session about used goods in second hand cars that are sent to
Africa on a daily base. A field trip to UBAs Artificial Stream and Pond
System closed the official program of the day.
On the second day, the participants started with an enforcement exercise
about shipments of waste tar containing asphalt granulate (TAG) in four
subgroups. The exercise was led by the Latvian and Dutch authorities.
Then, the Portuguese representative shared a brief overview of the
outcomes of the IMPEL-TFS Waste Sites Project meeting that took place
on 26-27 September 2011 in Frankfurt. Subsequently, Ireland, Slovenia,
England and Wales and Norway introduced their topics for a good
discussion with the participants.
Then after lunch, the winners of the organised contest were announced.
The first prize was for the Swedish NCP who interviewed the Bulgarian
representative. Second prize was for Ireland who wrote an article about
the Norwegian NCP. During the final afternoon of the meeting, members
of the IMPEL-TFS Steering Committee (Malta, the Netherlands, England
and Wales, Sweden, Denmark and Germany) joined the session for the
necessary exchange of information with the NCPs. The Italian colleagues
introduced themselves and their national waste shipments tracking
system ‘SISTRI’. The new IMPEL chair of the Board (May 2011) Ms. Zofia
Tucinska joined the session and introduced herself to the NCPs. Then,
four topics were presented and discussed by the Steering Committee:
• the IMPEL-TFS Doing the Right Things Project (DTRT) that was
developed by IMPEL cluster ‘Permitting, Inspections and
Enforcement’ which will now be applied to the European Waste
Shipment Regulation 1013/2006,
• the outcomes of the WSR Correspondents meeting in July 2011,
Brussels, Belgium,
• the Terms of References of the proposed new TFS projects for
2012 that will be discussed and decided upon in the next IMPEL
General Assembly on 24-25 November 2011
• The outcomes of the questionnaire that covered the structure of
the TFS cluster.
The meeting was closed after a short summary of the outcomes and a
friendly farewell and thank you to the project manager (2007-2011).
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