“It is a firm with high standards of quality and client service. Their main strength is their impeccable professionalism and the quality of their work. It is on a level with any other international law firm.”
• We advise several leading companies in biotechnological research and production of biotechnological and chemical products of agribusiness application, in regulatory and environmental matters. For this, we support the procedures for obtaining the authorizations and concessions for access to genetic material according to the required use, as well as in the import and authorization processes for the release of genetically modified organisms to the environment.
• Several initiatives have been taken in Costa Rica for municipalities to issue moratorium agreements in their cantons to genetically modified products. Batalla has advised higher education institutions and non-governmental organizations in the administrative procedures that have been carried out by the municipalities as well as in the objection of those decisions when the moratoria have been declared.
• Batalla has been part of the advisory teams that have studied the implications and effects of legislative proposals to enact laws prohibiting the planting of genetically modified seeds in Costa Rica.
• Batalla has successfully advised Monsanto in the defense of environmental release certificates challenged in judicial procedures.
