DENMARK Law and Practice Contributed by: Flemming Elbæk, Helle Ina Elmer, Mads Lund and August Reinhold, HaugaardBraad
HaugaardBraad provides a wide range of expert le- gal services and advice to businesses, public bodies and authorities, with a team of about 70 employees in Aalborg, Aarhus and Copenhagen. Its environmental law team advises on Danish and EU environmental law, supported by related expertise in real estate, construction, agriculture, insolvency, corporate/com- mercial and public law. Clients include municipalities, regional authorities and major public enterprises. Re-
cent work includes advising the Municipality of Hors- ens on environmental permitting for a road link to the E45 motorway; assisting Central Denmark Region on Natura 2000, WFD and Annex IV-species issues for a raw materials plan; advising the Danish Prison and Probation Service on a new remand prison near Slagelse; acting for Metroselskabet I/S on the EIA for the new M5 metro line; and advising By & Havn I/S on an Annex IV derogation for Lynetteholm.
Authors
Flemming Elbæk is a partner at HaugaardBraad and one of Denmark’s leading experts in
Mads Lund is an attorney-at-law at HaugaardBraad, specialised in Danish and EU environmental law. He primarily handles cases concerning Natura 2000 protection, Annex IV species, nature conservation, soil
environmental law. With more than ten years’ experience, he advises on complex Danish and EU environmental matters and public law. Before joining HaugaardBraad in 2014, he served as a legal consultant at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and at the Danish Agriculture & Food Council. Flemming is an external lecturer in environmental law at Aalborg University and was appointed to the government expert panel Lovkompas II under the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark. He is a member of the Danish Bar and Law Society.
contamination and raw materials extraction, together with public law litigation and liability. He previously spent seven years with the Danish Environmental and Food Board of Appeals, gaining deep insight into complex administrative and environmental procedures. Mads has the right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court and is a member of the Danish Bar and Law Society.
August Reinhold is an assistant attorney at HaugaardBraad focusing on environmental and public law. He assists authorities and developers and works across a broad range of environmental law matters, including
Helle Ina Elmer is an attorney-at-law at HaugaardBraad and is regarded as one of Denmark’s leading experts on EIA and SIA, advising on Danish and EU environmental law. She joined HaugaardBraad after a senior legal
EIA, drinking water extraction, wastewater discharge permits, freshwater matters and nature protection.
specialist role in the Danish Ministry of Environment, where she was responsible for the Planning Act and Environmental Assessment Act. She holds a PhD in property law and expropriation, lectures at Aalborg University and is a member of the Danish Bar and Law Society.
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