The Public Law Department offers legal advice to domestic and international companies on matters involving public bodies and authorities:
- Advice on the legal aspects arising from city-planning projects
- Planning, management and planning control
- Negotiations with public authorities
Urban development agreements
Law of property, expropriation, environment, water, mines, coasts - Administrative contracting:
Advice to bidding and tendering companies
Advice to public companies
Administrative appeals in all kinds of administrative procedures and applications for judicial review
- Environment
Environmental Law
- Defence in administrative, criminal and civil cases.
- Public Economic Environmental Law.
- Environmental Taxation.
- Environmental Liability.
- Environmental Litigation: review and management.
Biodiversity
- Biodiversity Statutory Framework.
- Protected Natural Areas (PNAs), Specially Protected Areas (SPAs) and Natural Interest Areas Scheme (NIAS), Natura Network 2000 (LIC and/or ZEPA)
- Wetlands and Aquifers
- Protection of the Landscape
- Protection of the Coastline.
Territory and Development
- Management of the Territory and the Environment.
- Strategic Environmental Assessment of development plans.
- Infrastructures, green belts and settlements.
Administrative licensing. Environmental Impact Assessment. Environmental Promotion Techniques.
- Administrative Licenses and Permits.
- Environmental Impact Assessments.
- Eco-labelling and public certification systems.
- Environmental Audits and Certification Procedures.
- Analysis of the Life Cycle.
- Participating Entities.
Waters
- Statutory Framework applicable to continental waters, water reclaimed for public property/use.
- Mechanisms for the acquisition of private rights over water, administrative procedures.
- Waste Water Sanitation.
- The Water Framework Directive. The Directive on Underground Waters.
Energy and the Environment
- Statutory Framework, energy-related activities, regulatory agencies, and energy sources subject to special regimes: renewable energies.
- The energy system; supply, transformation and allocation; strategic factors: environmental impact and risk; climate change.
- Foundations and rules; electromagnetic fields and their impact on the environment; light pollution.
- Basic techniques of energy transformation : combustion; renewable energies; acclimatisation basic technologies; biodiesels; hydrogen and diesel batteries.
- The biomass: foundations and statutory framework.
Waste
- Municipal, inert, and hazardous waste.
- Waste treatment territorial planning.
- Containers.
- Polluted soil.
- Industrial Waste.
- The supervisory activity of public agencies.
Air Protection
- Air quality and pollution monitoring. Potentially polluting activities; prevention; other mechanisms; surveillance and preventative networks; zoning. Liability regime.
- Pollution rights: source, the National Plan for the Allocation of Greenhouse Effect Gas Emissions. Statutory Framework.
- Noise pollution: introduction, technical concepts, sectoral legislation; private noise sources; sectoral autonomous and municipal legislation; legal implications of noise immission: civil, criminal and administrative spheres.
- Public noise sources: public road works, roads, airports and ports facilities, sirens, emergency vehicles, and municipal cleaning services. A practical example: the financial responsibility of public bodies arising from negligence and the grant of licenses. Acoustic insulation of buildings.
Industrial Safety. Risk Analysis.
- Storage of chemicals: serious accidents; legal regime. The so-called "addiction rule".
- REACH: Basic idea; Definitions and targeted individuals; REACH practical overview and requirements; pre-registration and registration. Actions by manufacturers and importers.
- REACH: Procedures; Organisation of the European Chemicals Agency; disciplinary rules and remedies.
- The law of environment-related nanotechnologies.
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