The EEC Environmental Management and Audit Scheme EMAS

The definition of a European regulation on environmental management is the cornerstone of work towards the international standard ISO 14000. 

Company Environmental Policy 2. Initial Environmental Review 

In this section the ISO/DIS 14001 (Draft International Standard) will be discussed, which specifies structural requirements of an environmental management system, and the directional guidelines of ISO/DIS 14004, which support the interpretation of the environmental norms of ISO 14001. 

The development of an ISO standard on environmental management and the EMAS program are the two dominant activities within environmental management in Western Europe. One would expect that if a company was certified under one of these two programmes then it would not be necessary to duplicate already-existing procedures to be certified under the other. This seems to be well provided for in the ISO draft standard. Nevertheless, there is a major difference between ISO 14000 and EMAS while EMAS is strictly based on 

Checking and Corrective Action Implementation and Operation Planning 

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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. 

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