Revised legislation relating to changes of environmentally hazardous activities, September 2013
The Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (IED) entered into force in Sweden on January 7, 2013, which initially resulted in some minor amendments to the Swedish Environmental Code. Simultaneously the government announced that the actual implementation would be regulated by the enactment of a series of new regulations. One of this regulations, which entered into force on June 18, 2013, is the EIA Ordinance (Sv. Miljöprövningsförordningen) (SFS 2013:251) (“MPF”), which replaced section 1 of the annex to the ordinance on environmentally hazardous activities and health protection (SFS 1998:899), and stipulates the activities which are subject to permit or notification requirements. The MPF ordinance also shifts the conditions for what an operator shall consider when changing an environmentally hazardous activity.