The Kick-off Meeting for the review of the BREF for the Ceramics Manufacturing Industry took place as a series of six web-based sessions between 10 and 25 February 2021.

The Final Meeting for the review of the BREF for Ferrous Metals Processing (FMP) has been successfully completed after nine web-based sessions that took place between November 2020 and February 2021. In these sessions, ninety experts representing EU Member States, industry, environmental NGOs and services of the Commission agreed on new mandatory environmental standards for the Ferrous Metals Processing Industry.

The fifteenth meeting of the IED Article 13 forum took place on 25 January 2021. The forum gave a positive opinion on the work programme of the European IPPC Bureau for 2021 and 2022.

The revised BREF for the Surface treatment using organic solvents including preservation of wood and wood products with chemicals (STS) has been issued on 11/12/2020.

09 December 2020:The Commission implementing decision establishing the BAT conclusions for surface treatment using organic solvents including preservation of wood and wood products with chemicals has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

23 November 2020  to 4 February 2021: Final TWG meeting for the review of the Ferrous Metals Processing (FMP) BREF carried out as a series of web-based sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

29 April 2020: The IED Article 75 Committee gave a positive opinion on the draft Commission Implementing Decision establishing BAT conclusions for surface treatment using organic solvents including preservation of wood and wood products with chemicals (STS) through a written procedure due to the COVID-19 situation.

The revised BREF for the Food, Drink and Milk Industries (FDM) has been issued on 20/12/2019.

The revised BREF for Waste Incineration (WI) has been issued on 20/12/2019.

The first draft of the revised BREF for the Textiles Industry (TXT) has been issued on 19/12/2019. Deadline to receive comments: 20 March 2020.