Environmental law comprises various matters, which often have an EC focus, with the shared purpose of sustaining the functionality of ecosystems. Our highly specialised team advises and represents renowned companies as well as the public sector in this area and has done so for decades.
Clients: approving and environmental authorities, enterprises, associations and organisations
Projects: Approvals of industrial plants (power plants, paper mills, steel plants, car production, waste-treatment plants etc.), planning of infrastructure projects (airports, roads, railway lines, subways, ports, offshore and onshore wind farms, overhead power lines, underground cable projects) special facilities with relevant immissions (sports stadiums, car testing and racing tracks), mining operations plan procedure (lignite planning etc.), due diligences with corporate law transactions
References: subway line number 5 Alexanderplatz to Pariser Platz in Berlin, road planning projects (A 4 and A 44, Waldschlösschen Bridge Dresden, Warnow Tunnel Rostock, Herren Tunnel Lübeck), airport extension Berlin-Schönefeld, Frankfurt/Main and Kassen-Calden, flight routes to and from German commercial airports, Elbe fairway adjustment between Hamburg and German Bight, test cases on emissions trading, representation of the Federal Republic of Germany in ECJ and the Federal Constitutional Court in numerous proceedings relating to environmental law