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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10791

22 February 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Sweden could face heavy fines for breach of law

Brussels, 21/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - Sweden is to be referred to the EU Court of Justice for a second time and could have considerable fines imposed on it for its continued failure to comply with EU legislation on integrated pollution prevention and control (Directive 96/61/EC, the so-called IPPC directive, codified by Directive 2008/1/EC). This decision was taken by the European Commission on Thursday 21 February in its monthly batch of infringement proceedings. The reason for the...

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