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Environmental Law, Estonia

The main areas of our expertise include:

  • compliance with environmental standards, systems management and liability;
  • environmental implications of corporate and financing transactions, such as negotiations over warranties and indemnities in acquisitions and sales;
  • assistance for obtaining licenses and permits for exploration and extraction of resources;
  • legal consequences of pollution, the requirements and conditions with respect to performance of activities that pollute, activities with SEG emission quotas, waste management legal regimes, normative regulation of territorial planning, legal aspects of environmental impact assessments, the legal regime of protection zones, and protected areas and the restrictions set forth therein;
  • representation in court.

Key team members:

A selection of work performed:

  • Advising AS Veolia Keskkonnateenused, OÜ Prügimees, OÜ Resk in matters concerning waste handling.
  • Advising AS Tallinna Jäätmete Taaskasutuskeskus in various matters concerning waste handling.
  • Advising MTÜ Kesk-Eesti Jäätmehoolduskeskus in matters concerning waste handling.
  • Advising the rural municipality of Kuusalu in connection with zoning and construction matters.
  • Advising the rural municipality of Viimsi in connection with zoning and construction matters.

Toomas Pikamäe

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