Environmental LawPractice Areas
Our environmental team provides counsel on compliance with environmental regulations in all branches of industry and focuses on preventing penalties, defending rights, and securing Environmental Incentives and Green Seal certification to enhance the value of companies, their production processes, and their products.
The team’s counsel includes identifying environmental obligations for new project planning, securing administrative authorizations from competent authorities, applying methodologies to identify and assess possible socio-environmental risks, and defining measures to minimize and compensate for potential impacts.
The team represents clients in legal proceedings involving liability for environmental damages, administrative penalties, and environmental crime. Our extensive practice in this area comprises clients in the agriculture, apiculture, fishing, food and beverage, conventional and alternative energy production, public waste collection, and landfill management industries, among others.
Services
- Due diligence and environmental audit processes
- Counsel on environmental regulations
- Processing of environmental plans and procurement of permits and licenses with the relevant national and local authorities
- Environmental compliance
- Defense in administrative penalty proceedings before the Environmental Commissioners or before the examining body of the relevant environmental authority or the national environmental authority
- Support in filing administrative appeals (Appeal and Review)
- Defense in court proceedings arising from decisions contrary to law at administrative venues
- Defense in court proceedings arising from environmental crimes or violations
- Strategies for filing constitutional or legal actions to defend the rights of nature or environmental crime cases
- Analysis of compliance status regarding ongoing projects and activities, approved environmental management plans (EMPs), and current regulations
- Identification of options to rectify non-compliance with current environmental regulations or with EMPs
- Monitoring of EMP application
- On-site environmental monitoring plans
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