Enviromental and Regulatory Compliance
The firm has extensive experience in advising clients on all major areas of environmental and health and safety law. We possess long-standing expertise in addressing a wide range of regulatory issues impacting our clients’ supply chains and the movement of their products. Additionally, we regularly counsel clients on managing due diligence and negotiating contracts for significant acquisitions, disposals, and infrastructure projects.
Within our practice, CREDIS Law has significantly assisted clients on the following issue:
- Obligation of public authorities to provide environment-related information to interested persons, including public members.
- Environmental permit and duties of operators in various industrial areas, covering air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, limitation of waste origination and liquidation of waste, and transfer of environmental permits.
- Enforcement powers of regulators regarding violation of environmental permits
- Advice on environmental policy in Slovakia.
- Guidance on air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, and waste pollution.
- Advice on environmental law from the perspective of nuclear liability.
- Advice related to environmental audits and environmental impact assessments.
- Guidance on waste law and issues related to specific categories of waste, including additional duties of control.
- Advice on waste storage and disposal by producers at the site of production.
- Advice on obligations of waste producers regarding reclamation and recovery of waste.
- Advise on liabilities arising from breach of environmental laws and permits, as well as available defenses.
- Implications of environmental liability in share sales and asset purchases.
- Guidance on lender liability for ecological wrongdoing and remedial costs.
- Advice on liability for contamination (including historic contamination) of soil or groundwater.
- Allocation of environmental liability in cases involving multiple responsible parties.
- Advice on the powers of environmental regulators, including document production, sampling, site inspections, and employee interviews,
- Guidance on environmental indemnity to limit exposure for ecological liability
- Advice on emission trading schemes and the emission trading market.
