EU AND FOREIGN TRADE
The importance of Community law was recognized early on by this law firm. Like few others, SVM Rechtsanwälte has, since the early 1960s, been busy representing clients in proceedings before the European Court of Justice. Down the years, the firm has built up a fund of expertise in this special field. Above all when it comes to Community law questions affecting the free exchange of goods and services, SVM Rechtsanwälte are in demand as advisors and consultants. Contacts with the EU Commission and other European institutions help sustainably underpin this activity. That also creates an opportunity to effectively solve problems in grants of EU subsidies or in other special issues of EU law on a case-geared basis and in close review with the client.
In close substantive connection with the above is foreign trade law. In view of globalisation and the events of 11 September 2001, foreign trade law has grown in importance. Free world trade in a large number or products is governed by national security and economic interests. SVM Rechtsanwälte support industrial and trading companies in their search for possible solutions to problems involving import and export goods that are subject to restrictions. This is true most of all in the case of dual use goods. In approval procedures and problems with the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA), clients can rely on sound support from the law firm.