### ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

In the current context of the economic development and the trends of compliance at global level, the specialty of Environmental Law exceeds the strictly speaking legal framework, thus it is important to know and specify the exact volume of obligations in charge of private parties, i.e. individuals and national and international companies, in order to comply with the content of the environmental law and prevent the imposition of administrative and criminal penalties.
In such manner, the firm offers to our clients general advice required to commence the transaction of a negotiation, its continuity and stay in the market and, also, to update through the environmental audit programs and the labeling named “green” allowing the generation of the status of a socially responsible companies.
GPL ABOGADOS, S.C. has a broad experience to attend the inquiry of plans and applications before federal and state environmental authorities; in such manner we propose, prior to the performance of changes, amendments to the law compliance pattern or any other business in the industrial or commercial activity and once the relevant inquiry is submitted, to achieve from the environmental authority the needed legal certainty of the application of such changes within the legal framework in effect.
The federal environmental standard has been updated in a vertiginous manner in the last twenty years, therefore GPL ABOGADOS, S.C. has full capacity to render legal and technical advice to attend matters such as: the voluntary environmental audit program, generation and sale of carbon credits, the obtaining of tax benefits and incentives from the federal authorities, the handling and treatment of hazardous waste as well as those of special handling, the obtaining of approvals and any other sort of permits, authorizations and licenses, in the federal, state and municipal levels, the needed advice in the performance of verification and inspection visits of the federal environmental authority and the occasional attention to agreements, compensations and creations of awards to the environmental fund without litigation.
With respect to the last matter, GPL ABOGADOS, S.C. has more than thirty years of experience in the attention of federal litigation and specifically, in environmental matters we are pioneers in the rendering of litigation services through ordinary and extraordinary means of defense such as Amparo suit, in order to create legal certainty regarding the performance and appliance of authority acts creating unnecessary discomfort to private parties.
The firm has achieved the obtaining of several resolutions releasing companies from administrative liability and, also, it has obtained through Amparo suit resolutions with unconstitutionality criteria that clearly results in the annulment of authority acts. All in order to create legal security to our clients.
Finally, GPL ABOGADOS, S.C. has the sufficient technical support to provide this type of services before federal and local environmental authorities, specifically in environmental audits, environmental impact assessment and risk analysis matters, among others.