Closely connected to the term “Environmental Compliance” are the liability risks following the violation of environmental law standards or injury of environmental media. Besides the liability according to civil law and mainly characterized by the environmental liability law, the subject-matter has become a burning issue again in 2007 by the Environmental Damage Act (USchadG) which – as if in extension of water law, nature conservation law and soil protection law - justifies a public-law liability of those who cause an environmental damage. Irrespective of the fault, liability is aimed at the person responsible for it and is also valid if the environmental damage is made by a licensed plant e.g. by water pollution in connection with sewage dumping based on an according dumping licence. We advise on all questions concerning liability law especially the prosecution or warding-off of private or public law claims.

Transactions require special attention to the Environmental Compliance of an enterprise. This applies to e.g. the plant permission law being the basis for the certainty of the legal continuation of the plant operation and possible expansion at the production site as well as to the soil protection law requiring remediation measures for harmful soil changes and contaminated sites. We have amplified know-how in discovering and evaluating environmental risks, no matter if roughly estimated risk evaluation or sound examination of the Environmental Compliance is concerned.