The government has called for a press conference early in the morning due to the bill to be handed over to the Riksdag.

When the Riksdag opened a week ago, the government promised that it would happen today.

But just two days later, the Law Council came up with its opinion.

Minister of Trade and Industry Ibrahim Baylan (S) and Minister of the Environment and Climate Per Bolund (MP) will at the press conference report on whether, and if so what, changes the government has made compared with the referral received by the Legal Council.

Can drive over the law council

Or the two ministers have decided that the threat of cement shortage, if Cementa can not continue to quarry lime in Slite on Gotland after 31 October, is so serious that there is reason to run over the views of the Law Council. Regardless of what the proposed exemption looks like, the government expects that it will be possible to get a broad majority for it in the Riksdag.

The Law Council is the authority that examines the government's bills before they are submitted to the Riksdag, to see if they are comprehensible, reasonable and can be reconciled with, for example, the constitutions.

The Law Council considered that the Government's proposal was contrary to the requirement for preparation, ie how a bill should be worked out, and partly to the principle that a law should apply generally to everyone and not be created to solve an individual's or company's problem.

In addition, it can damage confidence in the legal system, the lawyers in the Law Council pointed out because it is a way to round up the Land and Environmental Court's ruling on the permit for Cementa's lime mining.

The court rejected

On July 6 this year, the court rejected the company's application because the environmental impact statement the company had submitted did not, according to the court, meet the standard.

The application was intended to continue and increase the mining of lime in Slite for another 20 years, after 31 October this year.

The proposal the government has been working on entails temporary changes in the Environmental Code so that the company can continue to mine stone that has not yet been mined within the framework of the current permit.

Ibrahim Baylan and Per Bolund have called a press conference at 09.05 due to the cement production on Gotland.