To incorporate a partly new environmental regulation – IED in Sweden, June 2013
The EU Directive on Industrial Emissions (2010/75/EU) (“IED”) entered into force on the 7th of January 2011 and should have been implemented in the national legal orders by the 7th of January 2013. Changes in the Swedish Environmental Code (“Environmental Code”) were implemented before the transposition period expired, while the six new regulations were published on the 8th of May, and will enter into force on the 18th of June 2013. Below is a brief description of the significance of the IED, and some of the changes that the IED has given rise to in the Swedish legal system; changes that affect around 1,100 plants in Sweden.