Environmental Protection, Health & Safety

Kalikova & Associates has extensive experience in advising foreign and local companies operating in the mining, energy, tourism, transportation and other industries on environmental, health and safety regulations in the Kyrgyz Republic. Kalikova & Associates’s Environmental Protection, Health & Safety Practice Group is ready to offer its unique expertise, and technical knowledge to this complex and evolving area of practice, taking into consideration both national and applicable international environmental laws. In this area, Kalikova & Associates offers the following legal services:

- preparing legal memoranda on the policies on negative environmental impact of mining and oil and gas pipe laying operations, and other industrial processes;
- advising on the legal aspects of arranging and conducting environmental impact assessments;
- advising on the legal aspects of land protection, procedures of land transformation and reclamation;
- assisting in obtaining licenses and permits to operate hazardous production facilities and to use natural resources;
- providing legal assessment of compliance with the requirements for waste management processes, discharge of pollutants into water bodies, air emissions, use of toxic and radioactive substances, and equipment using radioactive emission;
- representing clients in court in cases involving possible environmental and safety violations and liability for damage allegedly caused to life and health of individuals by such violations.