Waste and Circular economy

  • Approval of waste treatment plants (e.g. plants, sorting and treatment plants, C/P plants, biogas plants, mobile plants or landfills)
  • Differentiation between waste and product, permitted recovery, end-of-waste, by-products
  • Declassification of hazardous waste to non-hazardous waste process
  • Pilot trials and testing of facilities
  • Definition of installations under the Industrial Emissions Directive EIA consent procedures and EIA declaratory procedures
  • Seveso III law: Advice on the control of major-accidents hazards involving dangerous substances regarding industrial plants and zoning plans)
  • Declaratory procedure (consolidation of administrative consent decisions, consensus scope, waste or product)
  • Obtaining permits for waste collectors and treaters
  • In-house waste management for companies (e.g. waste representative, necessity of an permit under the Federal Waste Management Act 2002)
  • Approval of recovery systems
  • Cross-border waste shipment - notification procedure
  • Treatment obligations, recording obligations, presentation and recording in the EDM-portal
  • Handling of environmental liability cases: Polluter and Property Owner Liability
  • Administrative penal proceedings and judicial criminal law
  • Advice for associations and authorities