ENVE 406

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ENVE 406

• EMAS AND ISO 14000
• 7 May 2001ANKARA

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (EMS)

• 1973 and 1979 two oil crises.
• Natural resources are limited
• (environment is one of them).
• International conferences on environmental
  protection
• 1972 Stockholm, 1992 Rio de Janeiro, 1997 Kyoto.
• Two basic elements of environmental policy
• Sustainable Development
• Polluter Pays

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Basic Elements of an Effective Environmental
Management System (EMS)

• Creating an environmental policy,
• Setting objectives and targets,
• Implementing a program to achieve those
  objectives,
• Monitoring and measuring its effectiveness,
• Correcting problems, and
• Reviewing the system to improve it and overall
  environmental performance.
• Better environmental management will lead to
  better environmental performance, increased
  efficiency, and a greater return on investment.

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MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND TOOLS
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Environmental Aspects in Product Standards (EAPS)
Environmental Labeling
Organization Evaluation
Product and Process Evaluation
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EMS Standards

• BS 7750 UK
• NSF 110 USA
• EMAS EU (1993)
• ISO 14000 International

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Terminology

• Accreditation
• Procedure by which an autorative body gives
  formal recognition that a body or person is
  competent to carry out specific tasks.
• Certification
• Procedure by which a third party gives written
  assurance that a product, process or service
  conforms to specific requirements.
• Registration
• Procedure by which a body indicates relevant
  characteristics of a product, process, or
  service, or particulars of a body or person, and
  then includes or registers the product, process,
  or service in an appropriate publicly available
  list.

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ISO 14000

• International Organization for Standardization
  (ISO)
• ISO 14000 refers to a series of standards, that
  are being developed to provide organizations
  worldwide with a common approach to Environmental
  Management.
• Thus, it describe the basic elements of an
  effective environmental management system (EMS).

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ISO 14001 vs. ISO 14004

• ISO 14000
• ISO 14001 specification standard, that describes
  the basic requirements of an EMS.
• ISO 14004 guidance standard for EMS, it provides
  companies with valuable information about
  implementing an EMS.
• ISO 14001
• The principle use of ISO 14001 is anticipated to
  be third-party registration, although it can be
  used internally, for self-declaration purposes,
  and in contractual situations. Thus, ISO 14001
  contains only those requirements that may be
  objectively audited against for registration
  purposes and/or for self-declaration purposes.
• ISO 14004
• It offers useful guidance in the form of examples
  and descriptions related to the development and
  implementation of EMS and principles and how to
  coordinate these with other management systems.
  ISO 14004 is indented for use as a voluntary,
  internal management tool and not intended for use
  by EMS certification/registration bodies as a
  specification standard.

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ISO 14001 Basic Terms and Definitions

• Organization a company, corporation, operation,
  firm, enterprise, institution, parts or
  combinations thereof, whether incorporated or
  not, public or private that has its own function
  and administration.
• Environment air, water, land, natural resources,
  flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation.
• Environmental Aspect element of and
  organizations activities, products and/or
  services which can interact with the environment.
• Environmental Impact any change to the
  environment, whether adverse or beneficial,
  wholly or partially resulting from an
  organizations activities, products and/or
  services.
• EMS that part of the overall management system
  which includes organizational structure, planning
  activities, responsibilities, practices,
  procedures, processes and resources for
  developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing
  and maintaining the environmental policy.

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ISO 14001 Basic Terms and Definitions

• EMS Audit systematic and documented verification
  process to objectively obtain and evaluate
  evidence to determine whether an organizations
  environmental management system conforms to the
  EMS audit criteria.
• Environmental Performance measurable results of
  the EMS. Related to an organizations control of
  the environmental aspects based on its
  environmental policy, objectives and targets.
• Continual Improvement process of enhancing the
  environmental management system to achieve
  improvements in overall environmental performance
  in line with the organizations policy.

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ECO-MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT SCHEME (EMAS)

• It was adopted by the European Council on 29th of
  June 1993 and allows voluntary participation, by
  the companies in the industrial sector.
• The aim of the scheme is to promote continuous
  environmental performance improvements of
  industrial activities by committing sites to
  evaluate and improve their own environmental
  performance.
• The scheme does not replace existing Community or
  national environmental legislation or technical
  standards nor does it, in any way, remove
  companys responsibility to fulfill all its legal
  obligations under such legislation or standards.

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EMAS

• Companys environmental policy should contain
• Compliance with all relevant environmental
  legislation,
• Prevention of pollution, and
• Achieving continuous improvements in
  environmental performance.
• At the site an initial environmental review is
  undertaken. In the light of this review and the
  companys environmental policy an environmental
  program and EMS is established for the site. Site
  environmental audits, covering all activities at
  the site concerned, must be conducted within an
  audit cycle of no longer than 3 years and based
  on the audit findings, environmental objectives
  set and the environmental program revised to
  achieve the set objectives. On completion of the
  initial environmental review and subsequent
  audits or audit cycles a public environmental
  statement is produced.

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EMAS

• The public environmental statement, and its
  validation by accredited environmental verifiers,
  is fundamental to the EMAS. A sites
  environmental statement will include the
  following key elements
• A description of the sites activities,
• An assessment of all the significant
  environmental issues,
• A summary of figures on pollution emissions,
  waste production, consumption of raw material,
  energy and water, and noise,
• A presentation of the companys environmental
  policy and sites program and management system,
• The deadline for the next statement, and the name
  of the accredited environmental verifier.

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EMAS

• De-registration can occur in three ways
• If a company fails to submit a validated
  environmental statement and registration fee
  within 3 moths of the deadline specified in its
  previous statement,
• If a competent body becomes aware that the site
  is no longer in compliance with the requirements
  of the regulation,
• If an enforcement authority informs a competent
  body that the site is no longer in compliance
  with the relevant environmental legislation.

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COMPARISON OF EMAS AND ISO 14000

• EMAS is only applicable to industries whereas ISO
  14000 can be applied to any enterprise (e.g.,
  tourism, education, public institutions)
• EMAS is site specific and relates to industrial
  activities whereas ISO 14001 applies to
  activities, products, and services across all
  sectors, including non-industrial activities such
  as government. Note, however, that under EMAS,
  non-industrial activities are being included on
  an experimental basis.

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PROFITS OF EMS

• Environmental costs,
• Control of processes,
• Improved productivity,
• Easy establishment and operation of an industrial
  foundation,
• Advantage in market competition,
• Motivation of workers for higher participation
  and sharing responsibilities.