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The ENPE Newsletter for December 2024, Issue 23, is now published and available with details of ENPE activity since June 2024 including the ENPE annual conference.

ENPE annual conference 2024

A workshop on Illegal Pesticides was organised by ENPE’s Waste and Illegal Pesticides (W&IP) Working Group and hosted by our colleagues at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on 28-29 November 2024.

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On 10th and 11th of October ENPE and University College Cork (UCC) held a joint conference on environmental crime in Cork, Ireland.

 

The latest ENPE newsletter - Issue 22 - has been published and is available for download. Please see below for the full version in pdf format.

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Wildlife Crime

A working group exploring the major issues of interpretation, practical application, evidence gathering and quantification of damage to the environment that hinder efficient and effective prosecution...

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Waste & Pesticides

From its establishment in 2015, the working group has exchanged experiences and best practices in combating violations of the EU Waste Shipment Regulation.

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Pollution

The Pollution working group was set up to explore the various issues experienced by prosecutors arising from non-compliance with industrial emissions and other major accident hazard laws across Europe.

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ENPE Background

In September 2012, in Brussels, representatives from prosecuting bodies in seven European countries came together to establish the European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment (ENPE). The meeting was attended by representatives from the Environment Agency for England, and from similar bodies in Sweden, France, Belgium, Ireland and Germany.

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Become a member

This website is designed to increase collaboration between environmental prosecutors and to improve the way environmental crime is prosecuted across Europe. Membership is open to any organisation involved in prosecuting environmental crime across Europe. Please follow the link below to learn more about how you can gain access to this resource.

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