EMAS
EMAS - the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, is a voluntary European initiative designed to improve companies’ environmental performance. The scheme has been available for participation by companies since April 1995 and its aim is to promote continuous environmental performance by committing organisations to evaluate and improve their own environmental performance.
It is a requirement of EMAS that participating organisations regularly produce a public environmental statement that reports on their environmental performance. The publication of this environmental information (whose accuracy and reliability has been independently checked by an environmental verifier) gives EMAS and those organisations that participate enhanced credibility and recognition.
The EMAS Regulation was revised in March 2001 in order to strengthen and improve the original EMAS scheme and ISO 14001 has now been integrated as the environmental management system required by the scheme.
More information on EMAS contact your
local ARENA Network contact
or visit
UK EMAS website and the
EMAS Helpdesk website