Promoting a consistent approach to prosecuting environmental crime across Europe.
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4 Networks Conference Bratislava 2025: Making the new Environmental Crime Directive Work
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New ENPE President - Rob de Rijck takes over from Anne Brosnan
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ENPE & UCC Joint Conference 10-11 October 2024, Cork, Ireland
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New Environmental Crime Directive (EU) 2024/1203 published
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ENPE delivering training at ERA workshop
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ENPE Waste & Illegal Pesticides Working Group workshop 07-08 December 2023 Tallinn, Estonia
Latest News
The latest ENPE newsletter for June 2025, Issue 24 has been published and is available for download. This edition includes a number of interesting cases from across Europe, as well as an update on ENPE activities and reports from events attended by ENPE members.
The 4 European environmental crime enforcement networks, IMPEL, EnviCrimeNet, ENPE & EUFJE held their biennial joint conference on 21-22 May 2025 in Bratislava castle, Bratislava, Slovakia.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.