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Tackling Environmental Crime throUgh standardized Methodologies

G8 Sea Island Summit, as part of a wider project of the international commu-
nity, providing technical and financial assistance to increase global capacity for
sustained peacekeeping operations, with an emphasis on African countries.

Moreover, since 2011, the Carabinieri have conducted at European level, a
cycle of exercises known as European Union Services Training (EUPST). This
program, fully funded by the EU, is the most important tool for the training of
the Police / Gendarmerie Forces contributing to the EU civilian missions. In the
first phase of the Project running from 2011 to 2014 the Carabinieri carried out
7 training sessions (2 of which in Africa), which have formed more than 2500
operators from 45 police forces with military and civil status coming from 5
continents. The Carabinieri are currently contributing both to the internal and
external security of Europe, accordingly to the New Internal Security Strategy
of the EU, discussed under the Italian Presidency of the EU 2014.

With no further ado I will now present the TECUM Project to you which
is our flag activity in the protection of the environment, for which we all are
here today.

Within COSI, during the 2014 Italian Presidency of the European Union,
the Carabinieri Corps prompted a renewed attention on transnational environ-
mental crime, through policy proposals and operational joint actions.

The results supported the ongoing discussions about the new internal
security strategy, with special reference to the new emerging threats, among
which environmental crime was identified as one of the most dangerous and
pervasive (perve’isiv) new forms of crime, for its impact on multiple interests:
legal businesses, local and transnational economy and – last but not least – the
protection of the territory from pollution and on human health.

This analysis, coming from different Carabinieri investigation experiences
in the last years, was confirmed – as we have heard just some moments ago –
by Eurojust and Europol analysis.

On November 2014, the Carabinieri launched a Joint Police Operation,
coordinated by Europol, which disseminated specific guidelines based on the
Italian investigative experience. The target of the operation was to perform
specific inspections on transnational movement of waste, in order to assess cri-
minal organisations modus operandi in this field.

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