Kick-off meeting of the IMPEL project "Criteria for the Assessment of the Environmental Damage"

ISPRA (Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research), on the 8th and 9th May 2019, hosts the first meeting of the IMPEL Network project entitled "CAED - Criteria for the Assessment of Environmental Damage", organized by the Area for the Ascertainment, the Assessment and the Remediation of the environmental damage of the National Centre for Crises, the Environmental Emergencies and the Damage.

The project, coordinated by ISPRA within the strategic work program of the IMPEL Network 2016-2020, is developed in the thematic area of ​​environmental damage, in particular, on the aspects of the ascertainment of environmental damage and threats of environmental damage, and involve officials from environmental agencies and environmental authorities in Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, England, Ireland, Kosovo, Latvia, Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain.

The objective of the project is to achieve a more effective implementation of Directive 2004/35/EC at European level, defining the criteria, both from a procedural and a technical point of view, which allow to timely and effectively detect and evaluate the clues and evidences of environmental damage and threats of environmental damage and, consequently, to obtain greater prevention and restoration of environmental damage.

The first meeting, which takes place at the ISPRA headquarters, will serve to identify and compare the procedures and techniques in use for ascertaining environmental damage and damage threats to natural resources identified by the Directive (land, water and habitat and protected species), as well as to collect guidelines and case studies developed in the various project member countries.

The project will include, successively, the dissemination of a specific questionnaire to the competent authorities, environmental agencies, control bodies and sectoral and non-governmental associations of all Member States and, finally, the drafting of a report / guideline that will contain good practices, case studies and useful tools for ascertaining environmental damage and threats of environmental damage pursuant to Directive 2004/35/EC.

For more information please contact the project coordinator Francesco Andreotti: francesco.andreotti@isprambiente.it