The 2024 edition of Baker McKenzie's International Guide to Contaminated Land offers an overview of national laws and regulations in over 30 countries governing the discovery, management and clean-up of environmental impacts at industrial sites.
The guide addresses the key legal issues and risks that must be understood and assessed to ensure the effectiveness of any response to environmental contamination, including:
- Respective national legislative frameworks
- Regulatory requirements for the reporting and clean-up of contaminated lands
- Applicable clean-up standards
- Potential agency enforcement risk and liability for third-party claims
- Ability of parties to transfer liability for contamination by contract
- Status of new regulations and related clean-up standards governing the identification and clean-up of "forever chemicals" or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Country Authors
| Australia | Italy |
| Samuel Allam Anna Vella |
Francesco Goisis Mario Cigno Miriam Allena |
| Indonesia | Kazakhstan |
| Tesalonika Barus Raya Rayidanti Putri Monica Tjahjono Nadia Soraya |
Nurgul Abdreyeva |
| Japan | The Netherlands |
| Kana Itabashi Misa Suzaki |
Paul Goedvolk Edo Berghuis Fréderique Hubbelmeijer |
| China | Spain |
| Scott Silverman Yiwei Sun |
Elisabet Cots Irene Esteve |
| Singapore | Sweden |
| Ken Chia Daryl Seetoh Victoria Wong |
Olof Johannesson |
| Taiwan | Switzerland |
| Tiffany Huang Su-Fen Chen |
Daniel Peregrina |
| Thailand | Ukraine |
| Nam-Ake Lekfuangfu Narawit Rujanant |
Serhiy Piontkovsky Nataliya Tyschenko |
| Vietnam | Argentina |
| Oanh Nguyen Phuc Thuy Hien Nguyen Nguyen Minh Ta |
Santiago Maqueda |
| Austria | Brazil |
| Kathrin Hornbanger Nesrin Yildirim |
Renata Amaral Giovani Tomasoni Manuela Demarche Alexandre Jabra Walter Hellmeister Rafael Gil Trench, Rossi e Watanabe* |
| Czech Republic | Chile |
| Petr Berger Ondrej Berta |
Mirco Hilgers |
| Egypt | Colombia |
| Lamyaa Gadelhak Hania Meshref |
Camila Jiménez Lara |
| England & Wales | Mexico |
| Graham Stuart Rachel MacLeod |
Federico Tuanova-Guinea |
| France | Peru |
| Arnaud Cabanes Pauline Abbouche |
Nicole Freire |
| Germany | USA |
| Andreas Neumann | John Watson Jessica Wicha |
| Hungary | |
| Benedek Kovács Henrik Lakoczky |
*Baker McKenzie and Trench Rossi Watanabe have executed a strategic cooperation agreement to consult on foreign law
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