Key takeaway
What This Development Means
Italy's Council of Ministers has definitively approved a decree transposing Directive (EU) 2024/1785 on industrial emissions and landfills. The text has not yet been promulgated or published, so no decree number, national commencement date or final transition detail is available. Operators should prepare, but continue applying existing Italian requirements pending gazettal.
Is Italy's revised industrial-emissions decree in force?
Not yet on the official records checked on 28 September 2026. Cabinet has definitively approved the decree, but promulgation and publication are still required. Existing Italian requirements remain operative until the published text provides otherwise.
Which new installations may be affected?
The revised EU scope includes large battery-cell manufacturing, specified cold-rolling and forging operations, industrial extraction and treatment of listed ores, and additional waste-treatment activities. The final Italian text must confirm national implementation and transitions.
Source basis: Italian Council of Ministers, press release No. 190, 24 September 2026
Italy Industrial Emissions Directive Decree Clears Cabinet
Italy's Council of Ministers definitively approved a legislative decree on 24 September 2026 to implement Directive (EU) 2024/1785, which amended the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU and Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC. The official communiqué says the final text reflects opinions from the Unified Conference and competent parliamentary committees.
This is a material final government step, but it is not the same as promulgation, publication or commencement. As at 28 September, no decree number or operative text had been identified in the Gazzetta Ufficiale. Existing Italian permit and operating requirements therefore continue to apply until the national measure is published and its commencement provisions are known.
Revised Industrial-Emissions Scope Reaches New Activities
The underlying European Union directive broadens coverage and strengthens permitting, environmental performance and governance. New or expanded activities include non-assembly battery manufacture at 15,000 tonnes of battery cells or more per year, cold rolling above 10 tonnes of crude steel per hour, forging presses above 30 meganewtons, industrial extraction and on-site treatment of listed metal ores, and specified waste-treatment operations including anaerobic digestion.
The revised framework also requires environmental management systems for covered installations and introduces transformation planning, stronger public access to permits and tighter links between emission limits, best available techniques and environmental performance. Exact Italian implementation, competent-authority procedures, transition provisions and amendments to Legislative Decree 152/2006 must be taken from the promulgated national text, not inferred from the Council summary.
What changed on 24 September is procedural certainty that Cabinet has completed its examination. What remains unchanged today is the operative Italian regime. What applies later will depend on the published decree. The European Union directive itself is in force, and its 1 July 2026 transposition deadline has passed, but a directive's national obligations must not be presented as though the unpublished Italian decree already applies.
Operators should map activities against the revised European scope, identify permits and best available techniques conclusions likely to be affected, and examine existing environmental management systems, chemical inventories, water and energy data, and public-disclosure controls. Battery, metals, minerals, chemicals, waste and landfill operators should also identify projects in permitting or expansion stages that may cross new capacity thresholds.
Foresight analysis: final Cabinet approval reduces uncertainty about whether Italy will proceed, but the missing gazetted text still matters operationally. The safest approach is a two-stage review: assess exposure against Directive (EU) 2024/1785 now, then confirm each duty, deadline and transition against the published Italian decree before changing compliance statements.
Practical call to action: Create a site-by-site scope and permit map now, then run a targeted legal comparison as soon as the decree appears in the Gazzetta Ufficiale.
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