The following areas of law and administrative regulations are particularly relevant in day-to-day environmental law practice:

Our legal advisory and representation services in environmental law primarily cover the following areas:

• Plant law of the Industrial Code (special regulations for IPPC plants), Emission Protection Act for boiler plants (EC-K), sector emission regulations, VOC Plant Ordinance;
• Waste Management Act, Landfill Ordinance, Packaging Ordinance, Waste Electrical Equipment Ordinance, Waste Catalogue Ordinance, Waste Records Ordinance, Waste Incineration Ordinance, End-of-Life Vehicles Ordinance,
• EU Waste Shipment Regulation;
• Water Rights Act;
• General Wastewater Emission Regulation, Sectoral Wastewater Emission Regulations, Environmental Quality Objectives Regulation, Indirect Dischargers Regulation,
• Sewerage law of the federal states;
• Contaminated Sites Remediation Act;
• Environmental Impact Assessment Act;
• Immission Control Act-Air;
• emission certificatesG;
• MineralrohstoffG;
• Environmental Promotion Act;
• ForstG;
• Employee Protection Act;
• EisenbahnG, Eisenbahnverordnung, Straßenbahnverordnung, Eisenbahnenteignungs-EntschädigungsG.

• Advice and representation in connection with permitting procedures: legal support for a project from the concept and planning phase through submission, permit hearings, issuance of decisions, appeal procedures, and implementation of the approved project;
• Advice and representation in remediation and securing procedures (soil and groundwater contamination, environmental liability);
• Advice and representation regarding various waste management law issues (assessment of waste status, contribution obligations under the Contaminated Sites Remediation Act (AlSAG), notification procedures, administrative penal proceedings in waste law, in-house implementation of new waste management requirements, establishment and operation of collection and recovery systems);
• Representation in civil liability and compensation proceedings (injunctions and claims for damages);
• Preparation of studies on the implementation of new environmental regulations, drafting of legislative proposals;
• Expert opinions and studies on a wide range of environmental law issues;
• Legal-technical site assessments in cooperation with a team of technical experts, environmental due diligence reviews, legal compliance audits, drafting of contract clauses to minimize environmental liability risks;
• Lobbying with interest groups to enforce specific business concerns.