The Industrial Emissions Directive

Abstract

The Industrial Emissions Directive allows an exploration of two prominent and closely related themes in EU environmental law. First, evolving approaches to the continuum between harmonisation and decentralisation in EU environmental law. Substantively flexible legislation creates a framework of varying flexibility within which environmental norms are generated and applied beyond the legislative process. Secondly, the IED allows us to examine the way in which EU environmental law creates institutional arrangements for learning and for change in environmental regulation.

Keywords: industrial emissions, governance, EU Law, flexibility, BAT, BREF

JEL Classification: K32