About ENPE
About ENPE
The European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment (ENPE) is registered in Brussels, Belgium as an International Non-Profit Association (Association Internationale Sans-But Lucratif – AISBL) and was incorporated by Royal Decree in Belgium on 01 September 20161.
The Association arose out of the many calls for a European network of prosecutors for the environment: from the Belgian and Hungarian Presidencies of the EU, and from various environmental conferences culminating in the Durbuy conference in May 2011 and the 9th Conference of INECE (International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement) in Vancouver in June 2011, both of which called for such an association to be created.
ENPE’s purpose is: to promote the enforcement of environmental criminal law by supporting the operational work of environmental prosecutors.
ENPE Board
The association’s structure is that of an international non-profit company run by the Board. Our directors have titles and positions laid down by the original ENPE Statutes, headed by the ENPE President. As set out in the ENPE Statutes, there are two Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer and a Secretary-General, all of whom are Board Directors. A further two Board members complete the group. The ENPE Board usually meets three times a year for formal meetings, and there is an Annual General Meeting, with all ENPE members and Observers invited to attend, held in Summer. (Please find recent Board meeting and Annual General Meeting minutes as downloadable documents below.)
Rob de Rijck
ENPE President
Rob de Rijck is the National Co-ordinating Prosecutor in the Netherlands for environmental criminal law enforcement. As well as being President of ENPE, Rob is also co-Chair of the ENPE Working Group on Waste & Illegal Pesticides.
Anne Brosnan
ENPE General Secretary
Anne Brosnan is Chief Prosecutor of the Environment Agency, England – a non-departmental Government body charged with the regulation of environmental legislation in England, UK. Anne is the Secretary General of ENPE.
Lars Magnusson
ENPE Vice-President
Lars Magnusson is a Senior Public Prosecutor in the National Environmental Crimes Unit, which is part of the Swedish Prosecution Authority (REMA). He is one of the two Vice-Presidents of ENPE and is the Chair of the ENPE Wildlife Crime Working Group.
Jean-Philippe Rivaud
ENPE International Vice-President
Jean-Philippe Rivaud is a Public Prosecutor dealing with the prosecution of environmental crime at the French Ministry of Justice. Jean-Philippe is the ENPE International Vice-President.
ENPE Treasurer
David Smith
Board Member
David is an environmental regulatory specialist and leads the Legal Department in the Office of Environmental Enforcement at the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). David is a Board Member of ENPE and is Vice-Chair of the ENPE Pollution Working Group.
Dr Antonio Vercher
Board Member
Dr Antonio Vercher is the Prosecutor of the Co-ordinating Chamber of the Environment for the State Attorney General’s Office of Spain. Antonio is also a Board Member of ENPE.
Dr Shaun Robinson
ENPE Project Manager & Secretariat Support
Shaun is a project manager at the Environment Agency, England, a government body charged with the regulation of environmental legislation in England, UK. Shaun provides project management and secretariat support to ENPE.
At any one time there are a number of active specialist Working Groups, each of which is led by a Chair comprising ENPE members (member permanent representatives or supporting members) and observers. The Working Group chairs report to the Board. Activity is conducted at Board meetings in accordance with the Articles of Association.
There are 75 ENPE members and observers, representing 39 countries, comprising Full Members (prosecuting authorities from European Government Prosecuting organisations); Supporting Members (other organisations and individuals involved in the prosecution of environmental crimes, in particular where a Full Member already exists for that organisation’s/person’s country); and Observers (appropriate organisations and persons involved in the prosecution of environmental crime).
ENPE’s organisational structure is set out in the organogram below. Full Members, Supporting Members and Observers, including the organisations represented and contact points, are also listed below that.
ENPE Funding
Specific Action and Operating Grants have been awarded to ENPE under the EU Directorate General for Environment (DG ENV) Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) reference ENV.E.4/FRA/2022/02 (“Direct award”) under the LIFE Programme2.
- Registered company number: 662 626 202
- Regulation (EU) 2021/783 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29.04.2021 and Commission Implementing Decision C(2021)4997 of 9.7.2021.
ENPE Full Members
| Organisation | State |
|---|---|
| Environment Agency (England) | United Kingdom |
| Ministère de la Justice / Ministry of Justice | France |
| An Ghníomhaireacht um Chaomhnú Comhshaoil / Environmental Protection Agency | Ireland |
| Riksenheten för miljö- och arbetsmiljömål (REMA) / Swedish Prosecution Authority | Sweden |
| Functioneel Parket Openbaar Ministerie / Public Prosecution Office | Netherlands |
| Okružni Tužioci Banja Luka / District Prosecutor’s Office of Banja Luka | Bosnia Herzegovina |
| Vrchní státní zastupitelství v Praze / The Upper State Assembly, Prague | Czech Republic |
| Økokrim / The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway | Norway |
| Rigsadvokaten / Public Prosecutor’s Office | Denmark |
| Fiscalía General del Estado Medio Ambiente y Urbanismo / Attorney General’s Office for Environment and Urbanism | Spain |
| Državno Odvjetništvo Republike Hrvatske / State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia | Croatia |
| Syyttäjälaitos / Finnish Prosecution Service | Finland |
| Specializētā vairāku jomu prokuratūra / Specialized Multi-field Prosecution Office | Latvia |
| REPUBLIKA E SHQIPËRISË PROKURORIA E PËRGJITHSHME / General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Albania | Albania |
| Άρειος Πάγος / The Supreme Court of Greece | Greece |
| Здружение на јавни обвинители / Association of Public Prosecutors | North Macedonia |
| Procura Generale della Cassazione / Italian Environmental Network of Prosecutors General | Italy |
| Νομική Υπηρεσία της Δημοκρατίας / Law Office of Cyprus | Cyprus |
| Ministerul Public – Parchetul de pe lângă Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție / Public Ministry Prosecutors’ Office attached to the High Court of Cassation | Romania |
| Ministério Público / Public Prosecution Service of Portugal | Portugal |
| General Prosecutor’s Office | Ukraine |
| Parquet II du canton de Zurich / Prosecutor’s Office II of the Canton of Zurich | Switzerland |
| Prosecutor’s Office of Estonia | Estonia |
| Bundesministerium für Verfassung, Reformen, Deregulierung und Justiz / Austrian Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice | Austria |
| LEGFŐBB ÜGYÉSZSÉG / Office of the General Prosecutor of Hungary | Hungary |
| Lietuvos Respublikos generalinė prokuratūra / The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania | Lithuania |
| Procuratura Generală a Republicii Moldova / General Prosecutor’s Office of Moldova | Republic of Moldova |
| General Prosecutor’s Office of the Slovak Republic | Slovakia |
| Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Bulgaria | Bulgaria |
| Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Slovenia | Slovenia |
| Prosecution Association of Serbia | Serbia |
ENPE Supporting Members
| Individual Supporting Members & Organisations | State |
|---|---|
| Individual working in the judiciary (environmental sector) | Australia |
| Individual member | Australia |
| Individual working at the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Antwerp | Belgium |
| Individual member | Belgium |
| LAV | Italy |
| Individual working at the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Court of First Instance, Antimafia District Directorate | Italy |
| The Siracusa Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights | Italy |
| Individual working at the Sardinia Prosecutor’s Office of Oristano | Italy |
| Individual working at the Ministry of Justice | Italy |
| Individual working at the Office of Work & Pensions | Ireland |
| Individual working at Microsoft | Ireland |
| The Cork County Council Solicitors’ Office | Ireland |
| The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions | Ireland |
| Individual working at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions | Ireland |
| Individual working at the Regional Prosecutors’ Office in Szczecin | Poland |
| Individual working at the Court of Cassation, Constanța | Romania |
| Individual working at the Department of Investigation & Criminal Justice | Portugal |
| Individual working at the Ministry of Justice | France |
| Individual working at the Crete Bar Committee | Greece |
| Individual working at Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office | Germany |
| The Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office | Germany |
| The Stuttgart Public Prosecutor’s Office | Germany |
| Deggendorf Public Prosecutor’s Office | Germany |
| Dortmund Public Prosecutor’s Office | Germany |
| Individual working at the Maritime University of Constanța | Romania |
| Individual working at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice; Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office | Austria |
| Individual working at Functioneel Parket Openbaar Ministerie / Public Prosecution Office | Netherlands |
| Individual working at the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, Vranje | Serbia |
ENPE Observers
| Organisation | State |
|---|---|
| International Association of Prosecutors | N/A (Hungary) |
| Udruženje tužitelja u Bugarskoj / Association of Prosecutors in Bulgaria | Bulgaria |
| National Environmental Protection Agency | Romania |
| Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin City Council | Ireland |
| Forum des Juges de l’Union Européenne pour l’Environnement / EUFJE | N/A (Belgium) |
| Државен Инспекторат за Животна Средина на Република Македонија / State Environmental Inspectorate, North Macedonia | North Macedonia |
| Ministério Público Federal do Brasil / Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service | Brazil |
| Eurojust | N/A (Netherlands) |
| TRAFFIC | Belgium |
| Državni inspektorat / State Inspectorate | Croatia |
| The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) | UK |
| The Malta Police Force | Malta |
| La Présidence du Ministère Public du Royaume du Maroc / The Presidency of the Public Prosecution of the Kingdom of Morocco | Morocco |
| General Prosecutor’s Office, Republic of Armenia | Republic of Armenia |
| Central Office for the Prosecution of Environmental Crime in North Rhine-Westphalia | Germany |
| AFMJE – Association française des magistrats pour la justice environnementale / Fren |