BOIVIN &  PARTNERS law firm has developed a well known expertise in the following fields:

Environment
Energy, carbon markets
Chemical and pharmaceutical industries
Urban planning (individual and commercial planning authorisations)
Major infrastructure projects
Contracts and public procurements
European Community Competition Law
Electronic communications
Administrative affairs
Public local authorities
Administrative litigation

Operating permits

- Audit of application files for operating permits
- Audit of environmental impact assessments and risk assessments
- Support of the procedure relating to operating permits
- Assessment of the operator’s technical and financial capacities
- Litigation

Operation of registered installations

- Modifications of operating requirements
- Modifications of operating conditions
- Financial guarantees
- “Grandfather” clause issues
- Administrative and criminal sanctions imposed on the operator

Sustainable development

- National Allocation Plans
- Emission allowances
- BAT, BREF, Updating of permit conditions in compliance with the IPPC Directive, emission limit values

Management of contaminated soils and brownfield sites

- Advice on the closure procedure of registered installations
- Negotiations with administrative authorities
- Civil, administrative and criminal liabilities
- Urban regeneration on brownfield sites

Transfer of industrial assets

- Acquisition audits
- Assistance on compliance controls
- Environment related clauses and guarantees
- Easements, usage restrictions

Technological hazards, health and environmental risks

- Drafting of documents relating to risk management (SGS, PPRT, safety assessments, health assessments, etc.)
- Crisis management
- Litigation

Nuclear law

- Mines
- Storage
- Registered installations
- Nuclear facilities
- Radioprotection

Special risks/hazards

- Health law
- Water law
- Waste law
- Logistic, transport, storage, warehouses
- Asbestos
- Pyrotechnics
- Mining and quarry law

Criminal environmental law

- Infringement of the ICPE regulations
- Infringement of waste regulations
- Infringement of water regulations
- Breach of labour law

Neighbourhood claims

- Noise pollution
- Claims related to odors, dust, vibrations or light…

Tax and environmental charges

- TGAP
- Tax and charges relating to water, waste, sewerage
- Other special taxes

Regulated sectors

- Electricity market
- Gas market
- Carbon market

Energy infrastructures

- Electricity production
- Gas concession
- Pipelines
- Oil storage facilities
- Strategic oil reserve
- Oil and gas storage in deep geological layers

Renewable energies

- Electricity purchase obligation
- Connection conditions (including net metering)
- Energy recovery plants
- Wind farms

- REACH
- Conformity testing products, certificates
- Administrative marketing authorisations

Planning documents

- Drafting and review of SCOT
- Drafting and review of PLU
- « Projets d’Intérêt Général » (PIG)
- Urban planning review procedures

Land development

- Land allotment
- Concerted urban planning zone (ZAC)
- Concerted development zone
- Pre-emptive rights, land assembly, expropriation
- Planning taxation and related charges

Urban planning and risk management

- Coastal law
- PPRT, PPRI
- Urban regeneration of brownfield sites

Planning authorisations

- Audit of application files for planning authorisations
- Support of the procedure relating to planning authorisations
- Litigation

Commercial planning authorisations

- Audit of application files for planning authorisations
- Support of the procedure relating to planning authorisations
- Litigation

- Onshore and offshore oil and gas terminals
- Airports
- Transport infrastructures (Channel tunnel, motorways, high-speed trains)
- exploitation of natural resources (mines, oil, gas)
- underground storage

- Audit of application files and tender procedures
- Complex operations (administrative leases, PPP)
- Negotiations (public service delegations, performance of public contracts)
- Litigation (emergency interim proceedings, performance of public contract, liability)

- Anti-competitive practices
- State aid rules
- Conditions of access to infrastructures

- Public procurements relating to telephony
- Infrastructures, network and services provided to local authorities
- Rights of access to telecommunication infrastructures
- Operators statutory requirements

- Administrative police
- Public property, private property
- Expropriation
- Public works damages
- Public service, State-owned companies
- Privatisation of State-owned companies
- National and local civil service

- Elections and status of elected representatives
- Local civil service
- Public funds
- Semi-publicly owned companies
- Intercommunal cooperation
- Public finance

Emergency interim proceedings

- Référé-constat (to obtain a judicial report)
- Référé-expertise (to obtain a judicial expertise)
- Référé-suspension (to obtain a suspension order)
- Référé-précontractuel (to obtain a pre-contractual order in matters of public contracts)
- Référé-liberté (summary procedure to protect rights against the administration)

Legal actions

- Recours pour excès de pouvoir (judicial review of administrative acts)
- Recours en responsabilité (action for compensation / action for damages)
- Opposition à titre exécutoire (action against enforcement orders)