The new Regulation 120/17 on “simplified land and rock routing”, which entered into force on 13 June 2017, repeals DM no. 161/2012 and art. 184-bis, paragraph 2bis of the TUA, as well as Art. 41, c.2 and 41-bis of DL n. 69/2013. The new simplified land and rolling rocks DPR 120/17 also updates the ISPRA…
An overview of the Circular Economy and the Green Public Procurement in Europe Aligned with the European Union philosophy is the so-called circular economy, which basically proposes action to “closing the loop” of product lifecycles through greater recycling and re-use, and bring benefits for both the environment and the economy. The circular economy has…
The roads are mainly built by the public administration or its dealers: are the EU Green Public Procurement in road industry applied? Following the main legislative framework: the procurement Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement, which repeals Directive 2004/18/EC on public works, supply and service contracts; the utilities Directive 2014/25/EU on procurement by entities operating in…
RAP-CO2 benefits and adhesion to the project: annual certification of environmental accounting ease of access to Public Green Procurement [GGP] improvement of the environmental image real-time monitoring of avoided CO2 emissions hr]
The RAP-CO2 project considers Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) and the evaluation of the life cycle of the bituminous conglomerate from the cradle to the grave. The following activities carried out at the aggregate production site (quarry) are considered: deforestation of the site that houses the quarry, which reduces the ability to sequestrate CO2 due to…
The Tuscan Administrative Regional Tribunal (TAR for it acronym in Italian) requires the Environmental Impact Assesment (TAR Toscana Sez. I n. 64 del 19.01.2017) According to the state’s environmental law, it’s consented that some projects are excluded of the Environmental Impact assessment requirement (V.I.A. for it acronym in Italian). This exclusion requirement is refered when…
Ecosurvey® will be present at AquaConsoil 2017, on 26-30 June in Lyon (F) to present tested green & sustainable solution for the soil and groundwater remediation. Green & Sustainable Remediation The Ecosurvey® green remediation solutions are planned and approved by the Authorities, for clean up, operative remediation, emergency remediation by examining the site specific contamination status and opportunities…
In collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) and the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering of the University of Bologna, Ecosurvey® proposed the “Development of a simplified standard for the Environmental impacts assessment of soil and groundwater remediation”. The Technical Committee of ECOMONDO 2016, The Green Technology Expo in Rimini November…
In Ecosurvey® the new requirements about quality and environment just published by ISO. After the publication of the new International standards ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 for the quality and environmental management, Ecosurvey® has started a transition process to the updating for the new requirements after of 11 years of the first certification with ISO 9001 in 2005…
Protocol Ecoreats signed on 18.05.2016 by the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Bologna, dott. De Francisci, the general manager of ARPAE, dott. Bortone, the representatives of the nine local bureaus and the commanders of the NOE Carabinieri, State Forestry Authority and Harbor Master’s Office are aiming to ensure homogeneous application throughout the…
