Independent, AI-native environmental due diligence for industrial acquisitions. Eleven assessment domains, scored against live EU and Dutch legislation — grounded in twenty-five years of permitting and enforcement practice.
Industrial acquisitions carry invisible environmental liability. Four pitfalls appear in nearly every file — all preventable through timely assessment.
Permit references outdated BREF emission ranges. The new BREF has been in force since 2021. Regulator can demand retrofit within twelve months.
Two unclosed Wbb investigations booked at zero. PFAS restriction in preparation. Bodemloket data discloses the real risk amount.
Natura 2000 at 800 metres. AERIUS deposition above zero. The intended capex pipeline assumes permits that will not be granted.
Substance change after last notification. Safety management obligations apply. Domino effects on neighbouring sites trigger additional duties.
A proven methodology that delivers regulatory clarity within your deal timeline. Five phases over one working week — one fixed price, and a file that keeps growing after the transaction.
Permits, annual reports, soil investigations, enforcement files and any further data-room material are uploaded to a secure workspace. AI classification builds the initial regulatory map and document index — preserving the depth a regulator expects.
Public registers (Bodemloket, Inspectieview, KvK, Rechtspraak, DSO) are pulled. BAT-AEL ranges are cross-referenced against the permit text. Targeted interviews where the data room is incomplete or ambiguous.
Findings are consolidated across all eleven compartments. Each is scored on the five-tier scale, with a cost estimate per compartment and a closing-condition recommendation. No vague warnings — only documented exposure.
Every finding is reviewed and validated by the founding practitioner before sign-off. Legal grounding is verified against jurisprudence. The draft report is then prepared with closing-condition language ready for the SPA.
Final EDD report, risk heatmap, financial summary and closing-conditions memo delivered on day five — together with a dealmaker briefing. The file does not end at closing: it grows on within PermitIQ as a permanent evidence system for inspections and enforcement in the years that follow.
Score zero: not applicable. Score four: deal-breaker. Each score is grounded in a specific permit condition, citation and deadline — an evidence chain that holds up in front of a regulator.
The permit is the central data object. Every finding traces back to a specific condition — validity, scope drift, missing notifications.
Best Available Techniques emission ranges — legally binding under IED. Coupled per IPPC category to live BREF documents and conclusions.
Threshold quantities, safety management system, domino effects. Site classification triggers cascading reporting and inspection regimes.
Historical contamination, ongoing investigations, restoration duties. The first-ever EU Soil Monitoring Law enters force mid-2026.
Emission ranges, monitoring duties, ZZS substance list updates. Most permits run two to three years behind the substance list.
Discharge permits, Water Framework Directive compliance, surface-water proximity. Renewal cycles often miss deal timing windows.
Zoning compliance, residential proximity, expansion constraints. Often the binding ceiling on the buyer's capex pipeline.
Deposition exposure, expansion permit feasibility, case-law trends. The Dutch nitrogen crisis has blocked pipelines since 2024.
Waste hierarchy, transboundary shipments, end-of-waste status. Critical for chemical recycling targets and landfill liabilities.
ETS phase IV exposure, taxonomy alignment, CSRD/CSDDD board liability from 2028, CBAM definitive phase from 2027.
Active enforcement actions, zoning conflicts, climate adaptation duties, neighbour disputes. Often the surprise finding on the final day.
Additional compartments tailored to the target's sector — pharma, chemicals, energy, waste. Specified during the scope phase and added to the matrix.
Permitting is the foundation. But environmental due diligence also touches certifications, standards and reporting frameworks that bind the buyer post-closing.
Every EDD-IQ assessment runs against the same live knowledge graph that powers the wider ERI platform — EU directives, regulations, jurisprudence, BREF documents, and the national regimes of all twenty-seven member states. Updated daily, citation-grade, machine-readable.
Every member state has its own permit regime layered onto EU directives. ERI maps the national instruments to the EU framework — so a finding in Rotterdam reads the same as a finding in Hamburg, Lyon or Milan.
The graph wakes up every morning, pulls EUR-Lex, CVDR, BREF and jurisprudence updates, and re-indexes. Yesterday's regulation is not today's regulation.
Every finding traces to a specific permit condition, BAT-AEL range, court ruling or regulator decision. No black-box AI summaries — auditable evidence chains.
The taxonomy and assessment logic are built by an active environmental lawyer with twenty-five years of permitting practice — not by data scientists guessing the regulatory landscape.
The same graph that scores an EDD-IQ engagement also drives PermitIQ for operators, ArboIQ for safety, DecideIQ for authorities. The file lives on after closing.
Environmental due diligence is the last major M&A advisory category without a digital platform. The work still happens in spreadsheets, the deliverable dies on closing day, and the next wave of EU directives multiplies the workload threefold.
From permit to enforcement, from prediction to accountability. The shared backbone is a single regulatory knowledge graph — live EU SPARQL, Dutch CVDR, jurisprudence, BREF — that every module reads from.
Phase I red-flag scan in 5 working days. Eleven compartments scored against live legislation. Living file post-closing.
Permit and condition management for industrial operators. The post-closing home of every EDD-IQ engagement.
The only safety platform that knows what your permit obliges. VCA, RI&E, BRZO, toolbox-meetings linked to permit conditions.
For competent authorities. Procedure selection, decision matrix, deadline monitoring, decision generator, DSO publication.
The number on the closing memo is almost never the number that matters. Twenty-five years of Dutch environmental law have taught me that the real risk amounts sit elsewhere — buried in permit conditions, case law and the quiet places regulators look first.
Stephan Kos — founder, ERI · permitting & compliance manager
A target on the table? We start with a Phase I scan. A fund underwriting the category? Then we have a different conversation.
Phase I red-flag report, IPPC depth, Seveso where applicable. Fixed scope, fixed price. A living file that grows on into PermitIQ.
ERI is the underlying knowledge graph — EU directives plus twenty-seven national regimes, indexed and live-updated. EDD-IQ is the first commercial surface; PermitIQ, ArboIQ and DecideIQ extend across the lifecycle.
Almost no buyer sees it in time. EDD-IQ surfaces it — in 5 working days, with citation-grade evidence, on the next deal you sign.