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AMBITUS
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2020
The project intends to deepen the analysis of the EnviCrime phenomenon; develop further cooperation by gathering knowledge, standardizing and improving practices and procedures, more efficient networking mechanisms between Member States…
Operational Facility Fighting Illicit Waste Trafficking (OPFA)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2020
EU initiative fostering internaitonal police cooperation against environmental crime.Innovative instrument supporting on-going police operations while setting EU harmonized investigation methodologies
Stronger Training and Increased Knowledge for Better Enforcement against Waste and Mercury (STRIKE)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2020
The STRIKE project aims to further enhance operational activities and capacities of authorities involved in addressing illegal trade & management of problematic waste streams (e.g. e-waste, end-of-life vehicles, batteries & waste…
Prevent of Waste Crime by Intelligence Based Inspections (PROWhIBIT)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2019
The project aims to prevent, detect and disrupt Environmental Waste Crime
Deterring and disrupting illegal trade and management of Waste by developing Tools for Enforcement, Forensics and Capacity Building Project (WasteForce)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2018
The WasteForce project aims at boosting the operational activities and capacities of authorities involved in the fight against illegal trade and management of waste through: development of new practical tools…
Operation Demeter IV
- Type:
- Operation
- Start year:
- 2018
Operation DEMETER IV targeted illegal transboundary movements of waste. A total of 75 Customs administrations participated in the joint global operation, the biggest Customs operation targeting illegal trafficking of waste…
Shipment of Waste Enforcement Actions Project (SWEAP)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2018
The overall purpose of the project is to support the circular economy by disrupting the illegal waste trade at the EU level by: Increasing skill set amongst inspectors and law…
Sword Campaign
- Type:
- Initiative
- Start year:
- 2017
Campaign initiated by the General Administration of Customs of China targeting “foreign waste,” including scrap electronics, plastics, industrial discards and other household materials.
Blocking the loopholes for illicit waste trafficking Project (BLOCKWASTE)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2016
BlockWaste aims to provide a strategic analysis of the threats and risks posed by the illicit waste trafficking (IWT) across Europe, in order to improve the preventative capabilities of EU…
Development of Tools to counter illegal management and trade of waste Project (DOTCOM Waste)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2016
The overall objective of DOTCOM Waste is to increase the capabilities of law enforcement agencies (LEAs), customs and port authorities, environmental agencies, and prosecutors to fight cross-border waste crime more…
LIFE-ENPE
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2015
LIFE-ENPE is a multi partner project that will improve compliance with EU Environmental Law by addressing uneven and incomplete implementation across Member States through improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness…
Tackling Environmental Crime through Standardised Methodologies Project (TECUM)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2015
The general objective of TECUM was to enhance interagency cooperation in investigating and fighting illicit waste trafficking and related incremental forms of environmental crime, focusing on the organized crime dimension…
Twinning Project ENEA – Enforcing Environmental Acquis
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2015
The purpose of the project is to enhance the capacities of environmental inspection bodies for enforcement of environmental legislation at central level (State Environmental Inspectorate (SEI)) and local level (municipalities).
Twinning Project IPA 2013 Programme for Serbia
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2015
The objective of this project was to contribute to the development and improvement of the hazardous waste management system in the Republic of Serbia, by improving both legislation and strategic…
LIFE SMART Waste project
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2014
The overarching goal of the LIFE SMART Waste project is to demonstrate innovative ways of understanding, tackling and reducing waste-related crime. The project develops, tests and applies new and modern…
Asian Network for Prevention of Illegal Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes
- Type:
- Initiative
- Start year:
- 2013
Informal network among the Competent Authorities to the Basel Convention in Asia, which aims at facilitating exchange and dissemination of information on transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and assisting countries…
European Action to Fight Environmental Crime (EFFACE)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2013
EFFACE assessed the impacts of environmental crime as well as effective and feasible policy options for combating it from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a focus on the EU.
Green Fence Campaign
- Type:
- Operation
- Start year:
- 2013
Campaign initiated by the General Administration of Customs of China targeting “foreign garbage”.
Project Eden
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2013
The Project Eden seeks to: Raise awareness of the illegal transnational movement of waste and the environmental and health consequences; Establish National Environmental Security Task Forces (NESTs) to ensure institutionalized…
EQual: Ensuring quality of waste-derived products to achieve resource efficiency
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2011
EQual was a partnership programme part-funded by the EU’s LIFE+ environment programme. It provided online tools for waste producers, waste management companies and recycled materials users and regulators, to help…
Regional Cooperation Initiative between Environmental Law Enforcement Units in Central and Eastern Europe (Themis Network)
- Type:
- Initiative
- Start year:
- 2010
Themis is an informal regional network of national authorities responsible for natural resources management and protection, and for the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, in particular on nature…
E-waste Academy
- Type:
- Programme
- Start year:
- 2009
The E-waste Academy provides tailored and targeted training for different stakeholder groups: The E-waste Academy for Managers (EWAM) for small- and medium-sized enterprises and policy-makers,The E-waste Academy for Scientists (EWAS) for young…
E-Waste Africa Programme
- Type:
- Programme
- Start year:
- 2008
The E-waste Africa Programme is a comprehensive programme aiming at enhancing the environmental governance of e-wastes and at creating favorable social and economic conditions for partnerships and small businesses in…
Countering WEEE Illegal Trade Project (CWIT)
- Type:
- Project
- Start year:
- 2007
The aim of the Countering WEEE Illegal Trade (CWIT) project is to provide a set of recommendations to support the European Commission, law enforcement authorities, and customs organisations, in countering…
Operations Sky Hole Patching
- Type:
- Operation
- Start year:
- 2006
Operations Sky Hole Patching are joint global Customs initiatives targeting illegal trade in Ozone Depelting Substances (ODS).
Green Customs Initiative
- Type:
- Initiative
- Start year:
- 2004
The Green Customs Initiative is a partnership of international organisations cooperating to prevent the illegal trade in environmentally-sensitive commodities and substances and to facilitate the legal trade. Its objective is…