Ronald Olivier

counsel
Portret
E-mail olivier@feltz.nl
Phone number +31 70 31 31 056
Mobile number +31 6 25 38 51 25
Secretary Hélène Vreeswijk
Phone number +31 70 31 31 051
E-mail vreeswijk@feltz.nl
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Ronald is a specialist in administrative law, environmental law and enforcement law. His clients come from both the private sector and the public sector, and include regulators, environmental protection agencies and special interest groups. Because of this, he is skilled at assessing the various interests involved in a situation and quickly finding concrete and clear solutions for his clients.

He regularly represents companies (particularly in the chemical sector) that find themselves dealing with changing regulations and administrative and criminal enforcement measures by criminal prosecutors or Dutch regulators (including environmental protection agencies, the SZW Inspectorate, ILT, Radiocommunications Agency and SodM). In addition, he assists provincial, regional and municipal bodies and environmental protection agencies with their enforcement activities.

Ronald is active in the energy law sector as well, often advising on and litigating administrative law and environmental law issues. He has extensive experience in matters relating to onshore and offshore gas production, biofuels, geothermal energy and wind energy.


Ronald is the author of the article-by-article commentary in two parts of Kluwer’s Milieurecht Totaal: the Offshore Wind Energy Act and Chapter 17 of the Environmental Protection Act. He also writes the case annotations for various legal periodicals reporting on construction law cases (BR and TBR), administrative law cases (Gemeentestem) and others (OA).


After graduating from Leiden University with an LLM in Civil Law and an LLM in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, Ronald worked at the Dutch law firm of Stibbe in Amsterdam for several years before bringing his expertise to Van der Feltz Advocaten in The Hague.


He is a member of the subcommittee of the Dutch Wind Energy Association (NWEA) that handles environmental law issues arising out of onshore wind energy.

Working in the sectors

Energy
Industry
Government

Working in the areas of law

Energy
Spatial Planning and Environment

Experience

Advising and litigating

on mining legislation, such as seismic surveys, natural gas, geothermal, CO2 storage, drilling and extraction plans;

Advising

Large companies producing dangerous substances have retained his services to handle enforcement measures taken under environmental, safety and employment conditions legislation, including the Dangerous Substances Decree (BRZO), the ATEX directive, regulations relating to noxious emissions and unusual incidents, the Transport of Dangerous Substances Act, licensing requirements, environmental protection regulations (Activiteitensbesluit) and working conditions legislation;

Assisting

provincial, regional and municipal governments and environmental agencies with various enforcement activities relating to unlicensed discharges of highly alarming substances;

Advising

on an exemption within the framework of the Nature Protection Act in connection with the proposed demolition of buildings, which are currently used by bats for shelter or protection

Regulatory advice

on the production of hydrogen;

Advising

on the consequences of new environmental and other regulations, including emissions standards and sector-specific regulations applicable to a business;

Advising

on permit issuance for projects causing nitrogen deposition (Nature Conservation Act);

Advising

governments and environmental services on enforcement and other administrative law options in the situation of bankrupt factories (both actual and imminent);

Advising

on spatial planning and zoning issues relating to wind parks;

He has also assisted with environmental permit applications.

Recommendations

Chambers Europe

Energy & Natural resources (Band 3)

"Van der Feltz advocaten is able to swiftly provide its services and in a very comprehensible form. Furthermore, the team shows a genuine interest in our business."

Chambers Europe

Energy & Natural resource (Band 3)

"The team is well informed about its clients' practices and positions, which makes for a pleasant working environment."

Chambers Europe

Energy & Natural resources (Band 3)

"Van der Feltz advocaten's strengths are its sector knowledge, speed and availability."

Chambers Europe

Energy & Natural resources (Band 3)

"Van der Feltz advocaten offers strong specialist knowledge and effectively takes the lead in procedures, with fast response times and delivery."

Chambers Europe

Energy & Natural resources (Band 3)

"The team has a complete understanding of the matter and communicates with clients very clearly."

Legal 500

Energy: Leading Associate

'Great analytical skills, flexibility and speed.'

Memberships

  • Member of the Administrative Law Association (VAR)
  • Member of the Environmental Law Association
  • Member of the Dutch Energy Law Association (NeVER)
  • Member of the Construction Law Association (VBR)
  • Member of the Dutch Lawyers’ Association (NJV)
  • Member of the Leiden Legal Society (LJG)