Waste and TFS inspections in

IMPEL Waste and TFS Conference 16 – 17 October 2019; , Romania Outline

• Who are we & What are we doing? • EU projects • Networking (national and international) • Why IMPEL member? • SMART planning of waste shipment inspections • SMART in practice • Key mesages Who are we?

• The National Environmental Guard is a public institution for inspection and control acting as a specialized body of the central public administration, with legal personality, integrally financed from the state budget, and subordinated to the Ministry of Environment • NEG consist of:

GENERAL Legal Service COMMISSARIAT

Human Resources

DANUBE DELTA 41 COUNTY BUCHAREST BIOSPHERE RESERVE COMMISSARIATES COMMISSARIAT COMMISSARIAT Financial & Public Procurements

621 Commissars & 179 Support staff What we are doing?

Industrial pollution control Other… Seveso

Inspection Waste & TFS & Chemicals Enforcement

Water Nature

Soil contamination What we are doing? EU projects

• Romania becomes EU member 10 years ago (1 st of January, 2007) and many opportunities revealed to Romanian competent authorities • NEG started to take advantages from the available EU funds in order to build up its capacity: – Supporting NEG to increase its capabilities in inspection and control activities (Twinning Project), 0.8ME – Joint Risk Monitoring during Emergencies in the Danube Area Border (RO-BG), 2.65ME – Improving NEG capacity on implementation and enforcement of hazardous waste and substances, 1.05ME – Developing of methodologies for establishment of ecological corridors and for training of protected areas managers towards to a better management of protected areas, 0.95ME 6 Networking

• Challenges in the implementation of EU environmental law become more and more difficult to overcome • Most often we face challenges that cross our borders and needs joint cooperation to address them • At EU scale, NEG is actively involved in: – IMPEL Network – EnviCrimeNet National cooperation

• National Environmental Protection Agency • National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection – INCDPM and National Research – Development Institute for Industrial Ecology– ECOIND (sampling) • , Romanian , Romanian Prosecutor Office, and Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism • Other Law Enforcement Agencies: General Directorate of , State Sanitary Inspection, and National Commission for Nuclear Activities Control

8 IMPEL member

• Aware that we cannot fight alone against transnational offences • Gain and share knowledge and expertise • Law boundaries came to an end at 31.12.2016 • Opportunities to improve our fight against illicit shipments of wastes • Standardised and optimised methodologies for planning and execution of inspections Last years developments

• Reshape of NEG guidelines on waste shipment inspections • Strengthen by increasing cooperation with police bodies and customs • Focus on important subjects • Risk based plan for 2018 and onward for Waste Shipment Inspections Waste & TFS Inspections

Annual Inspection Waste streams Plans Intelligence led / • Risk analysis Waste management facilities Companies • Cross border checkpoints to be monitored Routes • Port inspections • Authorities to be Execution of involved (NEG & Modus inspections Border Police) • Resources allocation operandi • Waste management • Channels of inspections communication • TFS inspections (IMPEL, Europol, etc.) • Inspections follow up (sanctions, penal complaints) What we done in 2018? 7,743 waste inspections

3,097 TFS 38,060 inspections inspections

1,845 fines 29 fines in in amount of 8.238 ME amount of 130.0ME Inspection & 27 permit 9 fines in Enforcement suspensions amount of 40.0ME Outcomes 211 activity 5 permit 1 permit suspensions suspensions suspensions

47 criminal 3 activity 1 activity complaints suspensions suspensions

17 criminal 9 criminal complaints complaints 12 Key mesages

Focus on important issues

Cooperate with partners

Share ….. best practices, knowledge, intelligence Thank you very much for your attention !

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