Participation in State Environmental Inspections

Efficiency and professional level are the most important criteria for evaluating our client work. An early request to GRATA for professional legal assistance in complying with environmental law will save you money and time in addition to protecting your business’ reputation.

Participation in State Environmental Inspections

Almost every company, which is related to the subsoil use, periodically deal with environmental inspections. For that reason all the businessmen need to know the requirements of the legislation imposed both to the inspections procedure and to the response activities.

This will allow choosing for them the most useful tactics:

• first, before an inspection to prevent the most common violations (because the regulatory authorities usually direct specifically to the detection of violations);
• secondly, to stand against the violation of their rights and create all the conditions so that they can further contest the illegal actions of inspectors and protect themselves from unproven bringing to legal responsibility and other enforceability measures.

The Environmental Law team of GRATA will be glad to offer you the services on representing your company’s interests during inspector’s and prosecutor’s environmental inspections. In particular, our lawyers may assist during inspections, assess the legality of the state inspector’s or prosecutor’s actions, provide comments on behalf of the company, make objections, consult the company’s employees that participate in the inspection, assess the results of the inspection and legal consequences thereof for the company, as well as advise on the advisability of appealing the inspection results.

Recent Experience:

Publications:

• Environmental inspections: practical recommendations for subsoil users on supporting and appealing environmental inspections (as amended by the Law of the RoK ‘On state control and supervision in the Republic of Kazakhstan’ dated 06 January 2011)