13.05 · Practice Domain

Environmental Law, Regulated Activities & Environmental Quality

When environmental standards and conditions governing activities that cause emissions, nuisance or other effects on the living environment is decisive for a project, location or legal position, the legal framework must be incorporated at an early stage of decision-making. You receive an environmental and planning-law approach focused on the regulatory framework, permissions, interests, evidence and a demonstrably legally sustainable balance between an activity, its environmental operating space and protection of the surrounding area.

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Legal-strategic perspective

Environmental Law, Regulated Activities & Environmental Quality focuses on environmental standards and conditions governing activities that cause emissions, nuisance or other effects on the living environment. Decision-making under environmental and planning law rarely follows from one rule or one permit alone; location, planning scope, studies, public interests, the ownership position and implementation conditions are continually interconnected. Environmentally harmful activities, Emissions to air and Noise and vibration are therefore considered from the outset within the applicable framework of the Dutch Environment and Planning Act and related legislation. Van Leeuwen Law Firm identifies which permissions and studies are necessary, which administrative bodies have authority and where decisions may be legally vulnerable.

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10 key subthemes

These ten themes are the substantive anchors for legal analysis, governance, decision-making, execution and assurance.

  1. 01Environmentally harmful activities
  2. 02Emissions to air
  3. 03Noise and vibration
  4. 04Odour nuisance
  5. 05Waste and circular-economy duties
  6. 06External safety
  7. 07Energy and sustainability obligations
  8. 08Environmental impact assessment
  9. 09Site-specific regulatory conditions
  10. 10Environmental enforcement and objections
Strategic depth

From substantive anchors to governable choices

The four blocks below connect the ten page-specific subthemes with materiality, decision-making, governance, execution and the evidential position your organisation may later need to defend.

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Regulated activities and emissions

Environmentally harmful activitiesEmissions to airNoise and vibration

Within Environmental Law, Regulated Activities & Environmental Quality, Environmentally harmful activities, Emissions to air and Noise and vibration are interconnected with the legal framework governing the physical environment and the decision-making that enables, limits or prevents an initiative. Van Leeuwen Law Firm assesses the applicable regulatory framework, the necessary studies and permissions, the position of interested parties, the quality of the reasons given and the interaction between public-law and private-law instruments. Procedural stages are identified at an early point, so that participation, representations, objections, appeals, enforcement proceedings or applications for interim relief do not arise only once opportunities for decision-making have been lost. The approach aims at legally sustainable development or, where necessary, effective protection against a decision or enforcement measure.

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Nuisance, waste and external safety

Odour nuisanceWaste and circular-economy dutiesExternal safety

Within Environmental Law, Regulated Activities & Environmental Quality, Odour nuisance, Waste and circular-economy duties and External safety are interconnected with the legal framework governing the physical environment and the decision-making that enables, limits or prevents an initiative. Van Leeuwen Law Firm assesses the applicable regulatory framework, the necessary studies and permissions, the position of interested parties, the quality of the reasons given and the interaction between public-law and private-law instruments. Procedural stages are identified at an early point, so that participation, representations, objections, appeals, enforcement proceedings or applications for interim relief do not arise only once opportunities for decision-making have been lost. The approach aims at legally sustainable development or, where necessary, effective protection against a decision or enforcement measure.

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Energy and environmental impact assessment

Energy and sustainability obligationsEnvironmental impact assessment

Within Environmental Law, Regulated Activities & Environmental Quality, Energy and sustainability obligations and Environmental impact assessment are interconnected with the legal framework governing the physical environment and the decision-making that enables, limits or prevents an initiative. Van Leeuwen Law Firm assesses the applicable regulatory framework, the necessary studies and permissions, the position of interested parties, the quality of the reasons given and the interaction between public-law and private-law instruments. Procedural stages are identified at an early point, so that participation, representations, objections, appeals, enforcement proceedings or applications for interim relief do not arise only once opportunities for decision-making have been lost. The approach aims at legally sustainable development or, where necessary, effective protection against a decision or enforcement measure.

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Tailored conditions, enforcement and legal protection

Site-specific regulatory conditionsEnvironmental enforcement and objections

Within Environmental Law, Regulated Activities & Environmental Quality, Site-specific regulatory conditions and Environmental enforcement and objections are interconnected with the legal framework governing the physical environment and the decision-making that enables, limits or prevents an initiative. Van Leeuwen Law Firm assesses the applicable regulatory framework, the necessary studies and permissions, the position of interested parties, the quality of the reasons given and the interaction between public-law and private-law instruments. Procedural stages are identified at an early point, so that participation, representations, objections, appeals, enforcement proceedings or applications for interim relief do not arise only once opportunities for decision-making have been lost. The approach aims at legally sustainable development or, where necessary, effective protection against a decision or enforcement measure.

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