Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of enforcement actions aiming to disrupt illegal shipments of waste
Building capacity and coordinating EU-wide inspections on shipments of waste to intensify the operational collaboration and enforcement actions between law enforcement communities
Getting a better understanding of trend and patterns to develop strategies to prevent and disrupt the illegal waste trade by employing new tools to improve the flow of intelligence on illegal shipments and the actors involved
The SWEAP project
The Shipment of Waste Enforcement Actions Project (SWEAP) project is co-funded by the European Commission LIFE fund and will run between September 2018 to June 2023. The overall purpose of the project is to support the circular economy by disrupting the illegal waste trade at the EU level by:
- Increasing skill set amongst inspectors and law enforcement agencies
- Intensifying collaboration nationally and internationally
- Developing innovative tools and techniques
- Creating EU-wide data set
- Providing intelligence products
Latest news
Challenges in waste shipment regulations discussed during seminar of the Florence Chamber of Commerce
“The transfrontier shipment of waste in Italy and Europe: present or future?” seminar was held in Florence (Italy), organised by…
Inter-agency inspections on waste shipments in Slovenia
As part of the LIFE SWEAP project, representatives of Inspectorate of Republic of Slovenia for the Environment and Spatial Planning…
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Norwegian and Swedish officers join inspections in Scotland
The second SWEAP Inspectors Exchange took place 14-16 November 2018 in Scotland. The Scottish Environment Agency SEPA, hosted law enforcement…
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