Shipment of Waste Enforcement Actions Project

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

Work packages

WP1. Capacity building & Training

WP2. Co-ordinated inspections

WP3. Innovative tools

WP4. International co-operation and awareness-raising

WP5. Intelligence

Latest news

Inspectors Exchange on Refuse Derived Fuel

In November 2018 Environment Agency of Northern Ireland’s Transfrontier Shipment of Waste (TFS) Team co-hosted an inspector exchange for SWEAP,…

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LIFE Programme Kick-Off meeting

The European Commission organised a kick off meeting on 6 and 7 November for all projects related to Resource Efficiency…

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First SWEAP High-level Advisory Board meeting

The members of the SWEAP High-level Advisory Board met for their first meeting on November 5th in Brussels. Representatives from…

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