Report on implementation of Directive 2010/75/EU and final reports on its predecessor legislation

The Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) is the primary EU legal instrument to regulate industrial emissions and aims to achieve significant benefits to the environment and human health, in particular through the mandatory application of Best Available Techniques (BAT). Sectors within the scope of the IED account for a considerable share of overall pollution (emissions to air and water and waste generation) in Europe.

The 7th Environment Action Programme expects that the uptake by industry of BAT under the IED will deliver improved resource-use patterns and reduced emissions for the EU's major industrial installations, thus making a significant contribution to stimulating the development of innovative techniques, greening the economy and reducing costs for industry in the longer term.

The IED is a product of better regulation efforts in that it merged, streamlined and simplified several pieces of legislation. It is an integrated instrument and its permitting provisions replace old systems of multiple permits.

The IED requires the Commission to report to Council and Parliament first on the initial phase of implementation and after that triennially. This report summarises Member State reports covering the initial phase of implementation (2013) and outlines other associated work that has been carried out, reviews the Commission's current related activities and looks ahead to the future. As the first Commission report under the IED, this also covers the final reports from Member States under the predecessor legislation.