Mrs Silvia Gawronski > Van Traa Advocaten > Rotterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Van Traa Advocaten Offices
MEENT 94
3011 JP ROTTERDAM
Netherlands
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Mrs Silvia Gawronski
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Silvia specialises in administrative (procedural) law. She was admitted to the Bar in 2011. She advises on topics regarding Quality, Health, Safety & Environment / (Q)HSE, varying from food- and product safety, organic agriculture, in- and export, innovative products, to (storage and transport of) explosives, nuclear safety, waste, mining and hazardous materials. Her special interest lies with supervision & enforcement and (administrative) sanctioning.
Silvia regularly lectures and publishes on the interface of these topics and is the Food Law country expert for the Netherlands by Escalex/IFIS. She is the author of the Kluwer Models for Environmental Law and a member of the Dutch Association for Food Law.
Silvia is recommended by the leading legal directories.
Position
Partner
Career
Silvia graduated in Dutch Constitutional and Administrative Law on the role of the government in live threatening incidents (Leiden University, LL.M. with honours) and from Oxford University (M.Jur). During her studies she also studied at the Graduate School of Polish Law at the University of Warsaw and studied at the University of Siena. In 2016 she completed the renowned Grotius specialisation in Administrative Law next to her work.
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Netherlands > Industry focus: Food
(Next Generation Partners)Van Traa Advocaten is the go-to firm for insurance and brokering companies who require assistance with recall actions related to disease outbreaks, decertification of organic good, and other potential issues. The team also has a specialised organic sector group which is well-equipped to handle regulatory, arbitration, litigation, and contractual issues faced by the organics industry. Other main areas of the practice include food-related M&A, transport and logistics, contracting and financing, regulatory, and insurance and liability. Marc van Maanen co-leads the team alongside Silvia Gawronski, he handles issues related to food and feed law and largely assists logistics service providers, their insurers, organic commodity traders, trade financiers, and meat traders. Gawronski acts for national and international companies on regulation and enforcement matters, as well as material food and food safety regulations. Steven Oude Alink specialises in commercial and transport law for the food industry, while Tomas Uildriks assists with recall disputes.