Caluwaerts Uytterhoeven Lawyers  /  Practice Areas  /  Environment

• Environmental permits (planning permission, environmental permit, allotment permit, nature permit, socioeconomic permit): advice, assistance with applications, administrative appeal proceedings, proceedings before the Council for Permit Disputes or civil courts.
• Enforcement of planning, criminal and environmental law: advice, assistance with a case/rectification, defence in a request for an opinion from the High Council of Environmental Enforcement, assistance/preparation in a police investigation, proceedings before the civil court and criminal court, follow-up care (advice on voluntary rectification, adaptation works, etc.).
• Town and country planning: advice on the scope or interpretation of Spatial Implementation Plans, appeals in the context of public enquiries, proceedings before the Council of State.
• Soil pollution and earth movements: advice and assistance relating to land transfers, analysis of purchase and sale agreements, assistance in transfer procedures (such as exploratory soil investigations, descriptive soil investigations, soil remediation projects, exemption from investigation and remediation obligations (innocent owner or possessor status), accelerated transfer, follow-up care, etc.), advice and assistance relating to disputes or proceedings involving earth movements.
• Expropriation law: advice and assistance relating to negotiations and proceedings before the competent courts.
• Environmental due diligence: performance of risk assessments in the context of acquisitions, mergers, etc.
• Real estate law: advice and analysis of contracts, proceedings before the competent civil courts (for cancellations, price reductions, etc.).
• Land and buildings policy, heritage protection, water policy, nature conservation law, etc.