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Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)

The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), is a voluntary EU directive designed to improve a company's environmental performance.

What is Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)?

The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, known as EMAS, is a voluntary EU scheme designed to improve a company's environmental performance.

Tpo get involved you need to:

1. Register to the scheme and:

• implement an environmental management system which meets the requirements of the EMAS Annex I (which is the same as ISO 14001)

• prepare a public environmental statement.

2. Once registered and undertaking EMAS,you will need to demonstrate the following:

• compliance with legal requirements

• management of environmental impacts

• improved environmental performance

• dialogue with stakeholders.

3. Get Independantly Verified - These activities must be independently checked by an accredited verifier such as LRQA.

Who can use Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)?

The EMAS regulation is voluntary and available to all types of companies located in the European Union and outside, although then registration with the European Commission is not possible. .

Benefits of EMAS

• Commitment to CSR - Companies that comply to the requirements of EMAS and have their performance verified show a public commitment to their corporate responsibility.

• Commitment to the environment - this also shows a public commitment to reducing the organisations impact on the environment.

• Easily integrated - If your company has an environmental management system certified to ISO 14001 it has already covered some of the requirements of EMAS.

• Trust and Credibilty - you will gain trust and credibility with your key stakeholders by showing your commitment to reducing your environmental impact.

• Supplier of choice - many companies choose environmentally friendly suppliers so that they can meet their own corporate social responsibilty objectives and emissions targets.

LRQA's services

Verification and Validation - After successful completion of the LRQA verification and validation assessment and the technical review, the client is issued with an LRQA EMAS verification declaration and validation details.

The dimensions to EMAS, management system and reporting, require verifiers such as LRQA to be flexible to the different aspects and to have a clear understanding of the issues and benefits that clients seek in making information publicly available. To support this, LRQA verifiers undergo further specialist training.