Environmental & Water Lawyers in Saudi Arabia

Overview

Industrial activities with potential environmental impact need special licenses accounting for environmental protection standards, and these requirements differ based on the nature of the activity and its expected scale of environmental impact.

Any new project potentially affecting the environment needs an advance impact assessment, and this might require design modifications or additional operational procedures to minimize the expected environmental impact.

Regulatory Basis

This area falls under the Environment Law and its implementing regulations, alongside water usage regulations overseen by bodies depending on the nature of the activity.

How We Help With Environmental Compliance

We identify the planned activity's requirements for environmental licensing before actual project implementation begins.

Who Needs This Service

An industrial company planning a new project that needs the environmental impact assessment required identified before implementation.

A company facing an environmental violation that needs their position assessed and a settlement negotiated.

We notice that some industrial projects assess their environmental impact once at initial licensing, without a periodic review of this assessment as actual operations expand later, and the expanded activity ends up exceeding the scope of the original environmental license without updating it, a position worth catching through periodic review before a regulatory inspection discovers it.

Additional Considerations

This connects with the energy sector under our energy, oil and gas law service when the activity falls in this field.

For construction projects with environmental impact, this connects with our construction and engineering law service.