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EMAS European Union Eco-Management and Audit Scheme... 

Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 allowing voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS), Official Journal of the European Union, EC, 2001, No.L.114. 

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Environmental management systems (EMS), and also ISO 14001, are becoming household names in many organizations. But what about EMAS Almost unknown in the United States, EMAS is the acronym for the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, a voluntary system based on European Union (EU) regulations and... 

EMAS Eco-management and audit scheme SS Suspended solids... 

The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) was launched in April 1995 by the European Commission under Regulation 1836/93, and is only available to European sites. It encourages industrial companies to manage their environmental effects and to publicly report on their environmental performance. 

EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) Belgium Requirements for the Environmental Statement (1998 revision)... 

In addition to ISO 14001, other well known environmental management systems include Responsible Care , adopted by the American Chemistry Council (formerly known as the Chemical Manufacturers Association) in 1988, Eco-Management Auditing Scheme (EMAS), adopted by the Council of the European Community in 1993, and Environmental Standard BS 7750, adopted by the United Kingdom in 1994. 

Within the European Union, many organisations have decided on a voluntary basis to implement environmental management systems based on EN ISO 14001 1996 or the EU Eco-management and audit scheme EMAS. EMAS includes the management system requirements of EN ISO 14001, but places additional emphasis on legal compliance, environmental performance and employee involvement it also requires external verification of the management system and validation of a public environmental statement (in EN ISO 14001 self-declaration is an alternative to external verification). There are also many organisations that have decided to put in place non-standardised EMSs. 

The features described under (a) to (e) above are elements of EN ISO 14001 1996 and the European Community Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), whereas the features (f) and (g) are specific to EMAS. These two standardised systems are applied in a number of IPPC installations. As an example, 357 organisations within the EU chemical and chemical products industry (NACE code 24) were EMAS registered in July 2002, most of which operate IPPC installations. 

Some critics claim that BS 7750 is not powerful enough, in the sense that it does not sufficiently stress the surveillance of sub-supplier probity. Nevertheless, it is a popular system which is often used as a first step towards registration tmder The European Community Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS). It is also one of the few existing standards on environmental management that can be adapted to the ISO 14000 Series on environmental issues within industry with only small modifications. 

Since 1991, the Council of the European Communities has been developing the Council Regulation Nr 1836/93 [13], called the EEC Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS). It came into effect in 1995 with the objective of promoting continuous improvement in the environmental periormance oi businesses throughout the European Union. 

The only monitoring of Road Safety Audited schemes in the UK seems to have been carried out by Surrey Coimty Coimcil. The county council was introducing Road Safety Audit at the time and it checked the safety performance of 20 minor improvement schemes that had been audited and modified accordingly, against 20 similar schemes that had not been audited. Its findings were that the audited schemes had, on average, about one casualty per year fewer than the non-audited schemes. 

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