ECENA Secretariat participated in a project ‘Benchmarking on Quality Parameters for Environmental Inspectorates’, September 8-9, Copenhagen, Denmark. ECENA Secretariat and representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro participated at the Seventh INECE Conference on April 10-15, 2005 in Marrakech, Morocco. BERCEN participated in the 24th IMPEL Plenary Meeting on December 1-3, 2004 in Amsterdam. The next IMPEL plenary meeting will take place in June 2005 in Luxembourg. BERCEN representatives from Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia participated at a Conference on Economic Aspects of Environmental Compliance Assurance on December 2-3, 2004 in Paris. BERCEN participated in the 6th REPIN Annual Meeting in September 2004 in Yerevan, Armenia. Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia participated in the project “Financing Environmental Compliance Assurance Programmes” on May 6-7, 2004 in Paris. Serbia and Montenegro participated in the IMPEL project “Use and Implementation of BREFs” on November 24-27, 2004 in Paris. Croatia participated in IMPEL network seminar "Waste related conditions in environmental permits" hold on May 10-11, 2004 by in Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) in Helsinki, Finland. More information (MS Word file). BERCEN participated in the 22nd IMPEL Plenary Meeting on November 26–28, 2003, in Rome, Italy. More information. The next IMPEL Plenary Meeting will take place on June 2-4 2004, in Dublin, Ireland. BERCEN participated in the fifth annual gathering of enforcement officers and environmental policy makers from environmental authorities in the region of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia on October 16-18, 2003, in Kiev, Ukraine. The main result of the meeting was the endorsement of the draft Work Programme of the Network for the period 2003-2006, which takes account of the decisions made at the 2003 “Environment for Europe” Ministerial Conference. More information. BERCEN participated in the second IMPEL conference held on October 6–8, 2003, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The participants discussed different aspects of practical work in the fields of permit-making, inspections and enforcement and development of new ways to improve the quality of the work. They discussed the development of new policy-instruments; the improvement of inspections; the strengthening of networks and the capacity building of the relevant organisations. The results of this conference are published in the final report. The BERCEN was presented at the 21st IMPEL meeting held on May 14-16, 2003, in Athens, Greece. BERCEN found strong support there, and IMPEL will further discuss its possibilities to support the BERCEN member and observer countries in the framework of IPPC and minimum criteria for environmental inspections. The BERCEN Secretariat participated in the 20th IMPEL meeting held on December 11-13, 2002, and the joint meeting of IMPEL and AC IMPEL on December 13, 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The BERCEN Secretariat participated in the 19th Meeting of the EU Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) in Santiago De Compostela, June 5-7, 2002 and the 2nd Joint Meeting of IMPEL & AC-IMPEL in Santiago De Compostela, June 7, 2002. The meeting emphasised the importance of further cooperation with BERCEN and concluded (72-KByte PDF file) that BERCEN should be invited to IMPEL/AC IMPEL projects and meetings on a case-by-case basis. It was agreed that BERCEN should be invited to the IMPEL 2003 Conference. The BERCEN Secretariat participated in the 6th International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement organised by the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement held in Costa Rica on April 15-19, 2002. BERCEN was introduced in two sessions: during themes 5 and 6 on regional networks on April 18. The conference participants were told of the network's progress.

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