1Introduction and OverviewUnsurprisingly, the efforts of EU European Commission over last year have been mostly channeled towards fight against Covid-19 Pandemic to both ensure uptake vaccination campaign kick-start economy under unprecedented economic stimulus package NextGenerationEU. Nevertheless, notable progress made advance ambitious roadmap laid down Green Deal.1 The adoption Deal, altho...

In the recent years the importance of environmental data is increasing. This has been reflected by the European legislation, when the Directive to establish an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) was published in May 2007 and has been adopted for the national legislation in the member countries, e.g. the “Geodatenzugangsgesetz” (GeoZG) in February 2009 in ...

A potential problem with local enforcement of national legislation is the varying level of application the decentralized structure may create. To study the severity of this problem, induced by mismatching local and national incentives, I look at the enforcement of the Swedish Environmental Code which is a national legislation enforced on the local level. I measure enforcement in terms of enviro...

Sustainability in the water sector in Europe is a major concern, and compliance with the current legislation alone does not seem to be enough to face major challenges like climate change or population growth and concentration. The greatest potential for improvement appears when companies decide to take a step forward and go beyond environmental legislation. This study focuses on the environment...

The relationship between trade liberalisation and the environment has been the subject of a growing body of literature in recent years. As can be seen from the differing assessment of instrument types for environmental protection, one of the important factors for the relationship between environmental protection and economic competitiveness are regulatory stringency and efficiency. This concern...

This study is a comparison of Swedish and Danish legislation on recycling of MSWI (Municipal Solid Waste Incineration) residues for construction purposes. The aim has been to look for differences and figure out whether these could be a reason for the minor use of MSWI ashes in Sweden compared to Denmark. To do this, text analysis has been performed on Swedish and Danish environmental legislatio...