Trades and Industries Law

  • Permits for setting up and start-up of manufacturing facilities
  • Optimized permits for modification of manufacturing facilities
  • Limitation and adaption of IPPC-installations, adaption to the newest standards and the best available techniques
  • Seveso III law; counselling regarding facility and hazardous substances legislation
  • Identification of hazardous areas for Seveso III facilities in zoning plans
  • Declaratory procedures (consolidation and extent of permits)
  • Application for and maintenance of operating permits
  • Management of approvals and evaluation of existing facilities
  • Delegation of liability under public law – exclusion of liability
  • Support in legal compliance projects related to issues of environmental or manufacturing facilities law
  • Water and waste management law
  • Forestry law and nature conservation law
  • Law on air pollution (Clean Air Act)
  • Chemicals and substances law (REACH)
  • Accompanying of decontamination of contaminated sites and facilities
  • Administrative orders: liability of polluter and land owner
  • Handling environmental liability cases
  • Administrative penal proceedings and criminal court proceedings