Up for debate: the role of green public procurement in mobilizing efforts towards more sustainable development
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Up for debate: the role of green public procurement in mobilizing efforts towards more sustainable development

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Garrigues partners Juan Manuel Cabeza and Javier Fernández Rivaya together with Rafael Domínguez Olivera, chief government lawyer in the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, examine in the Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs series the course taken by green public procurement in Spain. Public procurement governed by green and sustainable selection criteria or conditions increased by…

Garrigues featured in The Legal 500 Global Green Guide for its contribution to the green transition
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Garrigues featured in The Legal 500 Global Green Guide for its contribution to the green transition

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The Legal 500 has published its first ever Legal 500 Global Green Guide, which showcases the firms with an outstanding contribution to the green transition. Garrigues is one of the three Spanish firms selected from 200 submissions for the list. The Green Guide features key firms advising on issues around climate change and sustainability, while also…

Labor relations and the commitment to sustainability under debate in ‘Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs’
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Labor relations and the commitment to sustainability under debate in ‘Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs’

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Sustainability in labor relations, which covers aspects such as respect for human rights and responsibility in the value chain of companies, is occupying an increasingly bigger strategic space in corporate agendas. Moreover, future European initiatives on due diligence and decent work, as well as legislative developments in this regard, which are due to be brought…

G-advisory advises on the financing of 62 photovoltaic plants (154 MWp) of Sonnedix
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G-advisory advises on the financing of 62 photovoltaic plants (154 MWp) of Sonnedix

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G-advisory has acted as lenders´ technical advisor (ING, Nomura, Santander and Grupo Cajamar)  in the financing of a portfolio of 62 photovoltaic plants located in Spain and owned by Sonnedix, the global independent solar power producer (IPP). The debt value has amounted to EUR 154 million. The scope of works has consisted in carrying out…

End of the consultation period for the draft Royal Decree regulating the disposal of waste in landfills

End of the consultation period for the draft Royal Decree regulating the disposal of waste in landfills

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The new Royal Decree will incorporate the strategic lines of the EU action plan for the Circular Economy and its implementing measures (2018). August 31, 2018 marked the end of the public consultation period launched by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition on the draft Royal Decree regulating the disposal of waste in landfills to replace Royal Decree 1481/2001….

Legislative alert: Approval of the Order amending Schedule I of RD 9/2005

Legislative alert: Approval of the Order amending Schedule I of RD 9/2005

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The legal regime governing contaminated soil in Spain is defined in Contaminated Soil and Waste Law 22/2011, of July 28, 2011, and supplemented in Royal Decree 9/2005, of January 14, 2005, establishing the list of potentially soil-contaminating activities and the criteria and standards for a declaration of contaminated soil. Order PRA/1080/2017, of November 2, 2017, amending Schedule I of…

Legislative alert: deadlines now fixed for the creation of financial guarantees under environmental liability legislation

Legislative alert: deadlines now fixed for the creation of financial guarantees under environmental liability legislation

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Ministerial Order APM/1040/2017, of 23 October, establishing the deadline for the creation of compulsory financial guarantees for the activities set out in annex III of Law 26/2007, of 23 October, on Environmental Liability, has recently been approved, containing an essential requirement for the exercise of certain professional activities which cause or threaten to produce imminent environmental…

G-advisory article published in RETEMA: socio-economic and environmental impacts of urban waste-to-energy programs

G-advisory article published in RETEMA: socio-economic and environmental impacts of urban waste-to-energy programs

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After drafting a report on the above-mentioned impacts for AEVERSU (Spanish Association of Urban Solid Waste-to-Energy Companies) in October 2015 and preparing an analogous detailed report on the impacts of the future CMG-I (Guipúzcoa Environmental Complex – Phase I) in June 2016, G advisory’s team of professionals has collaborated with the review RETEMA (Technical Environmental Review) to…