ARPA Abogados Consultores offers services in the different legal branches related to mining activities, including administrative, urban planning, tax, contract, environmental, commercial and procedural, etc.
SERVICES
- Processing licence and mining concessions, including research permits, exploration permits, authorisations and exploitation concessions (Resources from Section A, B and C of the Mining Act).
- Processing of urban planning procedures that might be related to mining, such as Sector Planning of Supramunicipal Impact (SPSI), Sector Projects of Supramunicipal Impact (SPRSI), urban and town planning projects…
- Processing environmental licenses and authorisations related to mining activities: IPPC, integrated environmental permits, environmental effects, classified activity licence, environmental impact surveys (EIS), environmental impact statement (EIST), …
- Processing the authorisation of restoration plans and waste management industries (Royal Decree 975/2009).
- Mining activities within the Natura 2000 Network (NN), special areas of conservation (SAC) and special bird protection areas (SBPA), and habitat and wild bird directives.
- Public Hydrological Domain: water concessions, infrastructure…
- Processing declarations of compatibility with public utilities in the mountains, temporary occupation authorisations…
- Restricted mining activities in municipalities (urban planning, ordinances…)Mining authorisations and licences transfer or assignment contracts.
- Tax consulting and planning.
- Mining asset sale contracts, as well as mergers, purchases, acquisitions and restructuring of mining companies.
- National and international recruitment.
- Joint ventures for mining projects.
- Consulting on asset and rights expropriation records.
- Drafting of legal analysis for mining assets and environmental passives.
- Administrative and legal defence.
