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IMPEL-TFS EU-Africa Collaboration Project

• Joseph Sarfo Domfeh, Norwegian Pollution Control
  Authority
• Project Manager

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• EU-Africa Collaboration Project
• IMPEL-TFS project, led by Norway
• The project team representatives from IMPEL-TFS
  Secretariat and the Steering Committee, Norway,
  Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Portugal and
  UK.
• Legal base European Waste Shipment Regulation
  (EC) 1013/2006 and Commission Regulation (EC)
  1418/2007
• Art. 37 and 49.2 of Reg. EC 1013/2006
• Currently coordinating activities with Basel
  E-waste Africa Project, the Netherlands-Ghana
  Collaboration and INECE (SESN)
• Project start/end March 2009/?

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• Objectives
• The main aim of the project is to effectively
  clamp down on illegal shipments of
• waste to Africa in order to protect human health
  and the environment.
• Establish formal contacts in key African
  countries (focus on W.A)
• To raise awareness and enhance compliance with
  Reg. EC 1013/2006 through innovative
  communication (focus on exporters in Europe)
• Assess current situation regarding imports from
  EU, enforcement structures, treatment
  possibilities, problematic wastes streams and
• import restrictions
• Agree on how to deal with verification requests
  and detected illegal shipments and their return
  (i.e enforcement part of component 4 of the Basel
  E-waste project)

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Increased number of illegal waste transport
Enforcement and challenges

• Competent authority
• Money
• Precious time and energy
• Stress and uncertainties

Product and/ or waste
Country of dispatch

• Exporters
• Lose huge sums of money
• Time and energy
• Lawyers
• Owe friends or bank
• Confusion back home with second-hand dealers
• Broken homes
• Grief

Transit country
Stopped returned
Pass undetected
Country of destination
Product and/ or waste
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• Many shipments checked/controlled were illegal
  (in Europe)
• Do the exporters really want to send waste to
  Africa?
• No (good guys)
• Yes (the bad guys)
• Do they understand the language being used in
  the environmental regulations and media? Maybe
  terms like CFC, PCB etc. mean nothing to them
• Jeg skjønner det ikke. Jeg ble sjokkert da
  containeren ble stoppet i Belgia. Dette har
  kostet meg mange penger. Jeg har ikke gjort noe
  kriminelt xxxx

Communication
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• Supplementary actions/task
• Norway is stopping and checking almost every
  single container leaving her territory for Africa
• Brochure on shipments of used goods by Norway and
  the Netherlands (focus on exporters)
• Guide document on classification of waste and
  products from Germany (focus on inspectors)

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• Milestones
• Workshop in Östersund, Sweden 19 March, 2009
• Teleconference with SBC, IMPEL-TFS and INECE 16
  April, 2009
• Participate in a kickoff meeting in Geneva by
  SBC 16-17 May
• Preparation for a workshop in Ghana June-October
  2009
• Workshop in Ghana November, 2009
• Report to IMPEL-TFS March 2010
• Products communication procedure, operational
  network of contacts and collaboration
  agreement(s).

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• Thank you for your attention
• Contact
• joseph.domfeh_at_sft.no
• 47 2257 3780