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Статья 52Регламент № 1221/2009 Европейского парламента и Совета Европейского Союза
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Как цитировать: Статья 52. Регламент N 1221/2009 Европейского парламента и Совета Европейского Союза. 1221/2009. https://bukva.ai/docs/reglament-12212009/statya-52
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Экологический пересмотр должен охватывать следующие области:
Организация должна определить те внешние и внутренние вопросы, которые могут положительно или отрицательно повлиять на ее способность достигать планируемых результатов системы экологического менеджмента.
Такие вопросы включают релевантные условия окружающей среды, такие как климат, качество атмосферного воздуха, качество воды, наличие природных ресурсов, биоразнообразие.
Они могут также включать следующие условия, перечень которых не ограничен:
- внешние условия (такие как культурные, социальные, политические, правовые, регулятивные, финансовые, технологические, экономические, природные и условия конкуренции),
- внутренние условия, связанные с характеристиками организации (такими как ее деятельность, продукция и услуги, стратегическое направление, культура и возможности).
Организация должна определить заинтересованные стороны, которые имеют отношение к системе экологического менеджмента, релевантные потребности и ожидания данных заинтересованных сторон, а также то, каким из данных потребностей и ожиданий она соответствует или решает соответствовать.
Если организация принимает решение добровольно принять релевантные потребности или ожидания заинтересованных сторон, не подпадающие под действие правовых требований, или согласиться с ними, они становятся частью обязательств, которые она должна выполнять.
3. Определение действующих законодательных требований, относящихся к вопросам окружающей среды.
В дополнение к установлению перечня действующих законодательных требований организация должна также определить, каким образом могут быть обеспечены доказательства соблюдения ею различных требований.
Организация должна идентифицировать все прямые и косвенные экологические аспекты, оказывающие положительное или негативное воздействие на окружающую среду, квалифицированные и количественно оцененные надлежащим образом, и должна составить реестр всех идентифицированных экологических аспектов. Организация также должна определить, какие из данных аспектов являются значимыми, на основе критериев, установленных в соответствии с пунктом 5 настоящего Приложения.
При определении прямых и косвенных экологических аспектов необходимо, чтобы организации также учитывали экологические аспекты, связанные с их основными видами деятельности. Инвентаризация, ограниченная экологическими аспектами подразделений организации и ее производственными мощностями, является недостаточной.
При выявлении прямых и косвенных экологических аспектов своей деятельности, продукции и услуг организация должна выбирать перспективу жизненного цикла, принимая во внимание стадии жизненного цикла, которые она может контролировать или на которые она может влиять. Такие этапы обычно включают приобретение сырья, закупку и снабжение, дизайн, производство, транспортировку, использование, переработку в конце срока службы и окончательную утилизацию в зависимости от деятельности организации.
Прямые экологические аспекты связаны с деятельностью организации, ее продукцией и услугами, над которыми она имеет непосредственный управленческий контроль.
Все организации должны учитывать прямые экологические аспекты в своей деятельности.
Перечень прямых экологических аспектов не ограничен. К прямым экологическим аспектам относятся, в частности:
(2) сбросы в воду (включая инфильтрацию в грунтовые воды),
(3) производство, переработка, повторное использование, транспортировка и утилизация твердых и других отходов, в частности, опасных отходов;
(4) использование и загрязнение земель;
(5) использование энергоресурсов, природных ресурсов (включая водные ресурсы, фауну и флору) и сырьевых материалов;
(6) использование консервантов и пищевых добавок, а также полуфабрикатов;
(7) локальные вопросы (шум, вибрация, запах, пыль, внешний вид и т.д.).
При определении экологических аспектов следует также учитывать:
- риски аварийных ситуаций в окружающей среде и других чрезвычайных ситуаций с потенциальным воздействием на окружающую среду (например, химические аварии) и возможные нестандартные ситуации, которые могут привести к потенциальному воздействию на окружающую среду,
- вопросы транспортировки товаров и услуг, а также сотрудников, находящихся в командировках по делам компании;
Косвенные экологические аспекты могут быть результатом взаимодействия организации с третьими сторонами, которое может в соответствующей степени зависеть от организации.
Перечень косвенных экологических аспектов не ограничен. К косвенным экологическим аспектам относятся, в частности:
(1) вопросы, связанные с жизненным циклом продукции и услуг, на которые может влиять организация (приобретение сырья, проектирование, закупки и снабжение, производство, транспортировка, использование, переработка в конце срока службы и окончательная утилизация);
(2) капиталовложения, предоставление займов и услуг по страхованию;
(4) выбор и состав услуг (например, транспортных или общественного питания);
(5) административные и плановые решения;
(6) составы ассортимента продукции;
(7) экологическая результативность и практические методы деятельности подрядчиков, субподрядчиков, поставщиков и субпоставщиков.
Организации должны быть способны продемонстрировать, что значимые экологические аспекты и воздействия, связанные с данными аспектами, рассматриваются в рамках системы менеджмента.
Организация должна стремиться обеспечить, чтобы поставщики и лица, действующие от имени организации, соблюдали экологическую политику организации в рамках переданной сферы деятельности, осуществляемой по контракту.
Организация должна учитывать, какое влияние она может оказывать на указанные косвенные экологические аспекты и какие меры она может принять для уменьшения воздействия на окружающую среду или увеличения экологической выгоды.
Организация должна определить критерии для оценки значимости экологических аспектов своей деятельности, продукции и услуг и должна применять их для определения экологических аспектов, оказывающих значимое воздействие на окружающую среду, с учетом перспективы жизненного цикла.
Критерии, разработанные организацией, должны учитывать законодательство и должны быть всесторонними, поддающимися независимой проверке, воспроизводимыми и доступными для общественности.
При установлении данных критериев организация должна учитывать следующие элементы:
(1) потенциальный ущерб или выгоду для окружающей среды, включая биоразнообразие;
(2) состояние окружающей среды (например, уязвимость местной, региональной или глобальной окружающей среды);
(3) размер, количество, частотность и обратимость аспекта или воздействия;
(4) наличие и требования соответствующего экологического законодательства;
(5) мнения заинтересованных сторон, в том числе работников организации.
Дополнительные релевантные элементы могут быть рассмотрены в зависимости от вида деятельности, продукции и услуг организации.
На основе установленных критериев организация должна оценивать значимость своих экологических аспектов и воздействий. Для этого организация принимает во внимание следующие пункты, перечень которых не является исчерпывающим:
(1) существующие данные организации о материальных затратах и потребляемой энергии, выбросах отходов, выбросах и сбросах загрязняющих веществ в зависимости от наличия риска;
(2) виды деятельности организации, которые регулируются экологическим законодательством;
(4) дизайн, производство, дистрибуцию, обслуживание, использование, вторичное использование, переработку и утилизацию продукции организации;
(5) виды деятельности организации с наиболее значительными издержками и выплатами по охране окружающей среды.
При проведении оценки значимости воздействий деятельности организации на окружающую среду организация должна учитывать нормальные условия эксплуатации, условия введения в эксплуатацию и остановки работы, а также с достаточной вероятностью прогнозируемые аварийные условия. Должна производиться оценка предшествующей, текущей и запланированной деятельности организации.
Организация должна учитывать обратную связь, полученную в результате изучения предшествующих инцидентов, которые могут оказать влияние на способность организации достигать намеченных результатов ее системы экологического менеджмента.
Организация должна определять и документировать риски и возможности, связанные с ее экологическими аспектами, обязательствами по соответствию и другими вопросами и требованиями, указанными в пунктах 1 - 4 настоящего Приложения.
Организация должна сосредоточивать свое внимание на тех рисках и возможностях, которые необходимо учитывать для обеспечения того, чтобы система экологического менеджмента могла достигнуть намеченного результата, для предотвращения нежелательных последствий или аварий и для достижения непрерывного усовершенствования экологической результативности организации.
Организация должна проверять существующие процессы, методы и процедуры и определить, какие из них необходимы для обеспечения долгосрочного обеспечения экологического менеджмента.
ТРЕБОВАНИЯ СИСТЕМЫ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО МЕНЕДЖМЕНТА И ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ, АДРЕСОВАННЫЕ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯМ, ИМПЛЕМЕНТИРУЮЩИМ EMAS
Требования системы экологического менеджмента к организациям, применяющим EMAS — это требования, установленные в Разделах 4 — 10 Европейского стандарта EN ISO 14001:2015. Данные требования приводятся в Части A настоящего Приложения.
Содержащиеся в Статье 4 ссылки на конкретные пункты настоящего Приложения следует понимать следующим образом:
Ссылку на пункт A.3.1 следует понимать как ссылку на Часть A, пункт 6.1;
Ссылку на пункт A 5.5 следует понимать как ссылку на Часть A, пункт 9.2.
Кроме того, зарегистрированным организациям должен быть адресован ряд дополнительных вопросов, которые имеют прямое отношение к ряду элементов Раздела 4 Стандарта EN ISO 14001:2015. Данные дополнительные требования перечислены в Части B настоящего Приложения.
<*> Использование текста национального стандарта, воспроизводимого в настоящем приложении, осуществляется с разрешения CEN. Полный текст национального стандарта можно приобрести у национальных органов по стандартизации, перечень которых приводится на официальном сайте CEN. Любое воспроизведение настоящего приложения по коммерческим соображениям не разрешается.
<**> В соответствии с ограничением, установленным в вышеуказанной сноске, текст национального стандарта EN ISO 14001:2015 в данном переводе не приводится — прим. ред.
ВНУТРЕННИЙ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АУДИТ
Программа аудита должна гарантировать, что руководство организации обеспечено информацией, необходимой для пересмотра экологической результативности организации и эффективности системы экологического менеджмента. Программа аудита должна также демонстрировать, что экологическая результативность организации и эффективность системы экологического менеджмента находятся под контролем.
Цели экологического аудита должны включать, в частности, оценку систем менеджмента на местах и определение соответствия деятельности экологической политике организации и экологической программе, которые, в свою очередь, должны включать в себя соблюдение соответствующих правовых требований и иных требований, относящихся к окружающей среде.
Общая сфера проведения отдельных аудитов или каждого этапа цикла аудита при необходимости должна быть четко установлена и должна точно определять:
(1) предметные области, охваченные аудитом;
(2) виды деятельности, подлежащие аудиту;
(3) экологические критерии, которые должны учитываться при проведении аудита;
(4) период времени, подпадающий под проведение аудита.
Экологический аудит включает в себя оценку фактических данных, необходимых для оценки результативности.
Аудит или цикл аудита, охватывающий все виды деятельности организации, должен быть завершен в срок, не превышающий три года или четыре года, если применяется частичное отступление, установленное в Статье 7 настоящего Регламента. Периодичность проведения аудита любого вида деятельности организации будет изменяться в зависимости от:
(1) природы, масштаба и сложности видов деятельности;
(2) значимости воздействия на окружающую среду, связанного с определенным видом деятельности;
(3) важности и неотложности проблем, выявленных при проведении предыдущего аудита;
(4) истории экологических проблем.
Сложные (комплексные) виды деятельности, оказывающие более значительное воздействие на окружающую среду, должны чаще подвергаться аудиту.
Организация должна проводить аудиты по крайней мере на ежегодной основе, так как это поможет продемонстрировать руководству организации и экологическому верификатору, что организация контролирует свои значимые экологические аспекты.
Организация должна проводить аудиты, касающиеся:
(1) экологической эффективности организации; и
(2) выполнения организацией применимых правовых и иных требований, имеющих отношение к окружающей среде.
Аудиторская деятельность должна включать в себя обсуждение вопросов экологической результативности с персоналом организации, проверку производственных условий и оборудования, а также рассмотрение учетных записей, письменных процедур и другой соответствующей документации. Данные действия должны проводиться с целью оценки экологической результативности проверяемой деятельности, чтобы определить, отвечает ли проверяемая деятельность действующим стандартам, регламентам или поставленным экологическим целям и задачам. Аудиторская деятельность должна также определить, является ли система на местах по управлению экологическими обязанностями и результативностью эффективной и целесообразной, и в этой связи она должна включать, inter alia, выборочную проверку соответствия данным критериям для определения эффективности всей системы управления.
В частности, в процесс аудита должны быть включены следующие действия:
(1) осмысление систем менеджмента;
(2) оценка сильных и слабых сторон систем менеджмента;
(3) сбор доказательств, чтобы показать, когда система менеджмента работает и когда она не работает;
(4) оценка полученных аудиторских данных;
(5) подготовка аудиторских заключений;
(6) представление отчета о результатах аудита и представление аудиторских заключений.
Основными целями письменного отчета об аудите являются:
(1) документирование объема проведенного аудита;
(2) информирование руководства о состоянии соблюдения экологической политики организации и об экологическом прогрессе организации;
(3) информирование руководства о состоянии соблюдения правовых требований, а также других требований, имеющих отношение к окружающей среде, и о мерах, принимаемых для обеспечения того, чтобы соблюдение могло быть продемонстрировано;
(4) информирование руководства об эффективности и надежности мер, принимаемых для мониторинга и смягчения воздействия организации на окружающую среду;
(5) демонстрация возможности принятия корректирующих мер при необходимости.
Письменный отчет об аудите должен содержать необходимую информацию для достижения указанных целей.
Экологическая информация должна быть представлена в ясной и последовательной форме и предпочтительно должна быть доступна в электронном виде. Организация должна определить наилучший формат для предоставления данной информации заинтересованным сторонам в удобном для пользователей виде.
Экологический отчет должен содержать как минимум указанную ниже информацию и соответствовать минимальным требованиям, установленным ниже:
(a) обзор деятельности организации, выпускаемой продукции, оказываемых услуг и взаимоотношений организации с любыми родственными организациями при их наличии, а также ясные и недвусмысленные характеристики организации, зарегистрированной в EMAS, в том числе список участков, включенных в данную регистрацию;
(b) описание экологической политики и краткое описание структуры управления, поддерживающей систему экологического менеджмента организации;
(c) описание всех значимых прямых и косвенных экологических аспектов, которые приводят к значимым воздействиям организации на окружающую среду, краткое описание подхода, используемого для определения их значимости, и объяснение природы данных воздействий, взаимосвязанных с экологическими аспектами организации;
(d) описание экологических целей и целей в отношении значимых экологических аспектов организации и видов воздействия на окружающую среду;
(e) описание выполненных и запланированных действий по улучшению экологической результативности, достижению целей и задач и обеспечению соблюдения законодательных требований, относящихся к окружающей среде.
В тех случаях, когда это возможно, следует ссылаться на релевантные лучшие практики экологического менеджмента, представленные в отраслевых справочных документах, указанных в Статье 46 настоящего Регламента;
(f) обзор имеющихся данных по экологической результативности организации относительно ее значимых экологических аспектов.
Отчетность должна осуществляться по основным индикаторам экологической результативности и на основе конкретных индикаторов экологической результативности, как указано в Разделе C настоящего Приложения. При наличии экологических целей и задач должны представляться соответствующие отчетные данные;
(g) ссылки на основные правовые положения, которые должны быть учтены организацией для обеспечения исполнения правовых требований, относящихся к окружающей среде, и заявление об исполнении правовых норм;
(h) подтверждение относительно соблюдения требований параграфа 8 Статьи 25 настоящего Регламента, а также наименование и аккредитационный номер экологического верификатора и дата утверждения экологического отчета. Вместо этого может использоваться декларация, указанная в Приложении VII к настоящему Регламенту, и подписанная экологическим верификатором.
Обновленный экологический отчет должен содержать как минимум информацию и соответствовать минимальным требованиям, установленным в пунктах (e) - (h).
Организации могут принять решение включить в свой экологический отчет дополнительную информацию о фактах, касающуюся деятельности, продукции и услуг организации или их соответствия определенным требованиям. Вся информация, содержащаяся в экологическом отчете, должна быть утверждена экологическим верификатором.
Экологический отчет может быть интегрирован в другие отчетные документы организации (например, отчеты об управлении, устойчивости или корпоративной социальной ответственности). При его включении в такие отчетные документы должно проводиться четкое различие между подтвержденной и неподтвержденной информацией. Экологический отчет должен быть четко идентифицирован (например, посредством использования логотипа EMAS), и документ должен содержать краткое объяснение процесса утверждения в контексте EMAS.
Организации должны представлять отчетность о своих значимых прямых и косвенных экологических аспектах в форме экологического отчета и в форме обновленного экологического отчета посредством использования основных индикаторов экологической результативности и конкретных индикаторов экологической результативности, как установлено ниже. В случае недоступности количественных данных организации должны предоставлять информацию, выраженную в качественной форме, как описано в пункте 4.
В отчетности должны быть представлены данные о фактических затратах на производство и о фактическом объеме производства. Если раскрытие такой информации может отрицательно повлиять на конфиденциальность коммерческой или промышленной информации организации, в тех случаях, когда такая конфиденциальность предусматривается национальным законодательством или законодательством Сообщества для защиты законных экономических интересов, организации может быть разрешено индексировать данную информацию в своей отчетности, например, путем создания ограниченного исходного периода (с индексом 100), из которого можно выявить тенденции развития соотношения фактических затрат на производство и фактического объема производства.
(a) давать точную оценку экологической результативности организации;
(b) быть легко понятными и недвусмысленными;
(c) позволять оценивать, была ли улучшена экологическая результативность организации по сравнению с предыдущим периодом; для обеспечения такого сравнения отчетность должна охватывать не менее 3 лет деятельности при условии наличия данных;
(d) позволять проводить сравнение с контрольными показателями в секторе экономики, национальными или региональными показателями, соответственно;
(e) позволять проводить сравнение с нормативными требованиями.
Для содействия этому организация должна кратко определить сферу применения (включая организационные и материальные границы, пределы применения и методологию расчета), охватываемую каждым показателем.
(a) Основные индикаторы сосредоточены на результативности в следующих ключевых областях охраны окружающей среды:
(v) землепользование с учетом биоразнообразия;
Представление отчетности по основным индикаторам экологической результативности является обязательством организации. Тем не менее организация может оценивать релевантность данных индикаторов в контексте своих значимых экологических аспектов и воздействий. Если организация приходит к заключению, что один или несколько основных индикаторов не относятся к ее прямым значимым экологическим аспектам и воздействиям, то она может не сообщать об указанных основных индикаторах. В этом случае организация должна включить в экологический отчет четкое и аргументированное объяснение, почему она этого не делает.
(b) Каждый основной индикатор состоит из:
(i) числа A, показывающего общие годовые затраты на производство/объем производства в данной отрасли;
(ii) числа B, показывающего годовое контрольное значение, отражающее деятельность организации; и
(iii) числа R, показывающего соотношение чисел A/B.
Каждая организация должна представить отчет обо всех трех элементах каждого показателя.
(c) Индикатор общих годовых затрат на производство/объем производства в данной области, число A, должен отражаться в отчете организации следующим образом:
- «общее прямое потребление энергии», соответствующее общему годовому объему энергии, потребляемой организацией,
- «общее потребление энергии из возобновляемых источников», соответствующее общему годовому объему потребляемой организацией энергии, произведенной из возобновляемых источников энергии,
- «общее производство энергии из возобновляемых источников», соответствующее общему годовому объему энергии, произведенной организацией из возобновляемых источников энергии.
Этот последний элемент должен быть представлен в отчете только в том случае, если общий объем энергии, произведенной организацией из возобновляемых источников энергии, значительно превышает общий объем энергии, потребленной организацией из возобновляемых источников энергии, или если энергия из возобновляемых источников, произведенная организацией, не была потреблена организацией.
Если потребляются или, в случае возобновляемых источников энергии, производятся различные виды энергии (например, электроэнергия, тепло, топливо или другие), то их годовое потребление или производство отражается, соответственно, отдельно.
Показатель энергии предпочтительно должен быть выражен в КВт/ч, МВт/ч, ГДж или других показателях, обычно используемых для отчета о виде потребляемой или производимой энергии.
(ii) по показателю использования материалов:
- «годовой массовый расход используемых основных материалов» (без учета энергоносителей и воды), предпочтительно выраженный в единицах веса (например, в килограммах или тоннах) или объема (например, м3), или других показателях, обычно используемых в отрасли.
Когда используются различные типы материалов, их годовой расход должен отражаться в отчете, соответственно, отдельно;
(iii) по показателю использования воды:
- «общее ежегодное образование отходов» с разбивкой по типу, предпочтительно выраженное в единицах веса (например, килограммах или тоннах) или объема (например, м3), или в других системах показателей, обычно используемых в отрасли,
- «общее годовое производство опасных отходов», предпочтительно выраженное в единицах веса (например, килограммах или тоннах) или м3, или в других системах показателей, обычно используемых в отрасли,
(v) по показателю землепользования с учетом биоразнообразия:
- формы землепользования с учетом биоразнообразия, выраженные в единицах площади (например, м2 или га):
- общее землепользование;
- общая закрытая зона;
- общая природоохранная зона на участке;
- общая природно-ориентированная зона за пределами участка.
«Природоохранная зона» — это зона, предназначенная главным образом для сохранения или восстановления природы. Природоохранные зоны могут располагаться на территории участка и могут включать кровлю, фасад, водоотлив или другие элементы, которые были разработаны, адаптированы или находились под управлением в целях поощрения биоразнообразия. Природоохранные зоны могут также располагаться за пределами участка организации при условии, что они принадлежат организации или находятся под ее управлением и в первую очередь предназначены для содействия сохранению биоразнообразия. Можно также описать совместно управляемые области, посвященные поощрению биоразнообразия, при условии четкого определения сферы совместного управления.
«Изолированная зона» означает любую зону, где исходный грунт был покрыт (например, дороги), что делает его непроницаемым. Данная непроницаемость может оказывать воздействие на окружающую среду;
- «суммарный годовой выброс парниковых газов», включая по крайней мере выбросы CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, NF3 и SF6, выраженных в тоннах эквивалента CO2,
Организация должна рассмотреть вопрос о представлении отчетности о своих выбросах парниковых газов в соответствии с установленной методологией, такой как Протокол по парниковым газам.
- «общие годовые выбросы в атмосферу», в том числе по крайней мере относительно выбросов SO2, NOx и PM, выраженных в килограммах или тоннах,
(d) Индикатор годового эталонного значения, представляющего деятельность организации, число B, должно выбираться и отражаться в отчете на основе следующих требований:
(ii) быть числом, которое наилучшим образом отражает общую годовую деятельность организации;
(iii) позволять правильно описать экологическую результативность организации, принимая во внимание специфику организации и ее деятельности;
(iv) быть общим эталонным значением для отрасли, в которой работает организация, таким, как в следующих примерах:
- общий годовой объем производства;
- общая численность работников;
- общее количество ночных смен;
- общее количество жителей в районе (в случае государственного управления);
- количество тонн переработанных отходов (для организаций, осуществляющих деятельность в отрасли обращения с отходами);
- общий объем произведенной энергии (для организаций, осуществляющих деятельность в отрасли производства энергии);
(v) обеспечивать сравнимость представленных показателей с течением времени. Однажды определенное Число B должно использоваться в будущих экологических отчетах.
Изменение Числа B должно быть объяснено в экологическом отчете. В случае изменения Числа B организация должна обеспечить возможность сравнения этого числа в течение не менее 3 лет посредством пересчета индикаторов за предыдущие годы в соответствии с вновь определенным Числом B.
Каждая организация также должна ежегодно отчитываться о результативности своей деятельности, относящейся к значимым прямым и косвенным экологическим аспектам и воздействиям, связанным с ее основными видами деятельности, которые поддаются измерению и проверке и которые еще не охвачены основными индикаторами.
Отчетность по данным показателям должна представляться в соответствии с требованиями, установленными во введении к настоящему разделу.
В тех случаях, когда это возможно, организация должна учитывать отраслевые справочные документы, как установлено в Статье 46 настоящего Регламента, с целью облегчения определения релевантных конкретных отраслевых индикаторов.
В случае отсутствия количественных данных для представления отчетности по существенным прямым или косвенным экологическим аспектам организации должны представлять отчет о своей деятельности на основе качественной информации.
Организации, регистрирующиеся в системе EMAS, могут изъявить желание представить один корпоративный экологический отчет, охватывающий ряд различных географических объектов.
Поскольку намерение EMAS состоит в обеспечении представления локальной отчетности, организации должны гарантировать, что существенное воздействие на окружающую среду каждого подразделения организации будут четко определены и изложены в корпоративном экологическом отчете.
Организация должна гарантировать, что она способна продемонстрировать экологическому верификатору, что любое лицо, заинтересованное в получении информации об экологической результативности организации, может легко и свободно получить доступ к информации, предоставление которой требуется в соответствии с разделами B и C настоящего Приложения. Для обеспечения такой прозрачности информации экологический отчет предпочтительно должен быть опубликован для общего доступа на веб-сайте организации.
Организация должна обеспечить, чтобы данная информация об отдельном участке или организации была опубликована на официальном языке (на одном из официальных языков) государства-члена ЕС или третьей страны, в которых расположены участок или организация.
Кроме того, в случае представления корпоративного экологического отчета организация должна обеспечить, чтобы (для целей регистрации) указанная информация была доступна на официальном языке (на одном из официальных языков) государства-члена ЕС, в котором организация зарегистрирована, или на официальном языке (на одном из официальных языков) Союза, согласованном с компетентным органом, ответственным за регистрацию.
Экологический отчет может быть также опубликован на дополнительных языках при условии, что содержание переведенного документа соответствует содержанию оригинального экологического отчета, утвержденного экологическим верификатором, и что в нем четко указано, что это перевод утвержденного документа.
1. Логотип может использоваться на любом из нижеуказанных 24 языков с использованием следующих словесных обозначений:
2. Логотип должен использоваться в одном из следующих цветовых исполнений:
- в трехцветном исполнении (Pantone Номер 355 Зеленый; Pantone Номер 109 Желтый; Pantone Номер 286 Синий);
- в черном цвете на белом фоне;
- в белом цвете на черном фоне;
- в шкале серых тонов.
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Доступ общественности к экологическому отчету и обновленному экологическому отчету
(a) печатная форма .............................................
(b) электронная форма ..........................................
Регистрационный номер ..........................................
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Дата приостановления регистрации ...............................
Дата прекращения регистрации ...................................
Дата следующего экологического отчета ..........................
Дата следующего обновленного экологического отчета .............
Запрос об отступлении в соответствии со Статьей 7 настоящего Регламента
ДА — НЕТ .......................................................
NACE код деятельности ..........................................
Численность персонала организации ..............................
Оборотная ведомость или годовой баланс .........................
Наименование ...................................................
Адрес ..........................................................
Почтовый индекс ................................................
Город ..........................................................
Страна/земля/регион/Автономное сообщество ......................
Контактное лицо/представитель ..................................
Телефон ........................................................
Факс ...........................................................
E-mail .........................................................
Веб-сайт .......................................................
Доступ общественности к экологическому отчету и обновленному экологическому отчету
(a) печатная форма .............................................
(b) электронная форма ..........................................
Регистрационный номер ..........................................
Дата регистрации ...............................................
Дата приостановления регистрации ...............................
Дата прекращения регистрации ...................................
Дата следующего экологического отчета ..........................
Дата следующего обновленного экологического отчета .............
Запрос об отступлении в соответствии со Статьей 7 настоящего Регламента
ДА — НЕТ .......................................................
NACE код деятельности ..........................................
Численность персонала организации ..............................
Оборотная ведомость или годовой баланс .........................
Наименование экологического верификатора .......................
Адрес ..........................................................
Почтовый индекс ................................................
Город ..........................................................
Страна/земля/регион/Автономное сообщество ......................
Телефон ........................................................
Факс ...........................................................
E-mail .........................................................
Регистрационный номер аккредитации или лицензии ................
Область аккредитации или область действия лицензии (NACE коды)
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Аккредитационный или лицензирующий орган .......................
Совершено в _____________ от //2000 ......................
Подпись полномочного представителя организации .................
ДЕКЛАРАЦИЯ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ВЕРИФИКАТОРА О ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ПО ПРОВЕДЕНИЮ ПРОВЕРОК И УТВЕРЖДЕНИЮ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ОТЧЕТОВ
...................................................................................................... (наименование).
регистрационный номер экологического верификатора в EMAS .....................
получена аккредитация или лицензия в области .......................... (NACE код)
заявляет, что произвел проверку выполнения подразделением(-ями) организации или всей организацией, как указано в экологическом отчете/обновленном экологическом отчете <*> организации ................................................................................ (наименование)
с регистрационным номером (если имеется) ..............................................................................
всех требований Регламента (ЕС) 1221/2009 Европейского Парламента и Совета ЕС от 25 ноября 2009 г. о добровольном участии организаций в системе эко-менеджмента и аудита Сообщества (EMAS).
Подписывая настоящую декларацию, я заявляю, что:
- проверка и утверждение экологического отчета были проведены в полном соответствии с требованиями Регламента (ЕС) 1221/2009,
- результаты проверки и утверждения экологического отчета подтверждают, что не имеется никаких доказательств несоблюдения применимых правовых норм, относящихся к вопросам окружающей среды,
- данные и информация, содержащиеся в экологическом отчете/обновленном экологическом отчете <> организации/подразделения <>, отражают достоверным, надежным и точным образом все виды деятельности организации/подразделения организации <*>, в пределах, указанных в экологическом отчете.
Настоящий документ не является равнозначным регистрации в EMAS. Регистрация в EMAS может быть предоставлена только Компетентным органом в соответствии с Регламентом (ЕС) 1221/2009. Настоящий документ не может быть использован как самостоятельная часть информирования общественности.
Совершено в _____________ от //20....
<*> перечеркнуть, если это неприменимо.
REGULATION (EC) No. 1221/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL ON THE VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION BY ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMUNITY ECO-MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT SCHEME (EMAS), REPEALING REGULATION (EC) No 761/2001 AND COMMISSION DECISIONS 2001/681/EC AND 2006/193/EC <*>
(Amended by: Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 of 13 May 2013, Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/1505 of 28 August 2017, Commission Regulation (EU) 2018/2026 of 19 December 2018)
<*> This text is meant purely as a documentation tool and has no legal effect. The Union's institutions do not assume any liability for its contents. The authentic versions of the relevant acts, including their preambles, are those published in the Official Journal of the European Union and available in EUR-Lex. Those official texts are directly accessible through the links embedded in this document
A Community eco-management and audit scheme, hereinafter referred to as «EMAS», is hereby established, allowing voluntary participation by organisations located inside or outside the Community.
The objective of EMAS, as an important instrument of the Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy Action Plan, is to promote continuous improvements in the environmental performance of organisations by the establishment and implementation of environmental management systems by organisations, the systematic, objective and periodic evaluation of the performance of such systems, the provision of information on environmental performance, an open dialogue with the public and other interested parties and the active involvement of employees in organisations and appropriate training.
For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
1. «environmental policy» means the overall intentions and direction of an organisation relating to its environmental performance as formally expressed by top management including compliance with all applicable legal requirements relating to the environment and also a commitment to continuous improvement of environmental performance. It provides a framework for action and for the setting of environmental objectives and targets;
2. «environmental performance» means the measurable results of an organisation's management of its environmental aspects;
3. «legal compliance» means full implementation of applicable legal requirements, including permit conditions, relating to the environment;
4. «environmental aspect» means an element of an organisation's activities, products or services that has or can have an impact on the environment;
5. «significant environmental aspect» means an environmental aspect that has or can have a significant environmental impact;
6. «direct environmental aspect» means an environmental aspect associated with activities, products and services of the organisation itself over which it has direct management control;
7. «indirect environmental aspect» means an environmental aspect which can result from the interaction of an organisation with third parties and which can to a reasonable degree be influenced by an organisation;
8. «environmental impact» means any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from an organisation's activities, products or services;
9. «environmental review» means an initial comprehensive analysis of environmental aspects, environmental impacts and environmental performance related to an organisation's activities, products and services;
10. «environmental programme» means a description of the measures, responsibilities and means taken or envisaged to achieve environmental objectives and targets and the deadlines for achieving the environmental objectives and targets;
11. «environmental objective» means an overall environmental goal, arising from the environmental policy, that an organisation sets itself to achieve, and which is quantified where practicable;
12. «environmental target» means a detailed performance requirement, arising from the environmental objectives, applicable to an organisation or parts thereof, and that needs to be set and met in order to achieve those objectives;
13. «environmental management system» means the part of the overall management system that includes the organisational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining the environmental policy and managing the environmental aspects;
14. «best environmental management practice» means the most effective way to implement the environmental management system by organisations in a relevant sector and that can result in best environmental performance under given economic and technical conditions;
15. «substantial change» means any change in an organisation's operation, structure, administration, processes, activities, products or services that has or can have a significant impact on an organisation's environmental management system, the environment or human health;
16. «internal environmental audit» means a systematic, documented, periodic and objective evaluation of the environmental performance of an organisation, management system and processes designed to protect the environment;
17. «auditor» means an individual or group of individuals, belonging to an organisation itself or a natural or legal person external to that organisation, acting on behalf of that organisation, carrying out an assessment of, in particular, the environmental management system in place and determining conformity with the organisation's environmental policy and programme, including compliance with the applicable legal requirements relating to the environment;
18. «environmental statement» means the comprehensive information to the public and other interested parties regarding an organisation's:
(b) environmental policy and environmental management system;
(c) environmental aspects and impacts;
(d) environmental programme, objectives and targets;
(e) environmental performance and compliance with applicable legal obligations relating to the environment as set out in Annex IV;
19. «updated environmental statement» means the comprehensive information to the public and other interested parties containing updates of the last validated environmental statement, only with regard to an organisation's environmental performance and compliance with applicable legal obligations relating to the environment as set out in Annex IV;
20. «environmental verifier» means:
(a) a conformity assessment body as defined in Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 or any association or group of such bodies, which has obtained accreditation in accordance with this Regulation; or
(b) any natural or legal person, or any association or group of such persons, which has obtained a licence to carry out verification and validation in accordance with this Regulation;
21. «organisation» means a company, corporation, firm, enterprise, authority or institution, located inside or outside the Community, or part or combination thereof, whether incorporated or not, public or private, which has its own functions and administration;
22. «site» means a distinct geographic location under the management control of an organisation covering activities, products and services, including all infrastructure, equipment and materials; a site is the smallest entity to be considered for registration;
23. «cluster» means a group of independent organisations related to each other by geographical proximity or business activities jointly implementing the environmental management system;
24. «verification» means the conformity assessment process carried out by an environmental verifier to demonstrate whether an organisation's environmental review, environmental policy, environmental management system and internal environmental audit and its implementation fulfils the requirements of this Regulation;
25. «validation» means the confirmation by the environmental verifier who carried out the verification, that the information and data in an organisation's environmental statement and updated environmental statement are reliable, credible and correct and meet the requirements of this Regulation;
26. «enforcement authorities» means the relevant competent authorities as identified by the Member States to detect, prevent and investigate breaches of applicable legal requirements relating to the environment and, where required, take enforcement action;
27. «environmental performance indicator» means a specific expression that allows measurement of an organisation's environmental performance;
28. «small organisations» means:
(a) micro, small and medium-sized enterprises as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises <*>; or
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(b) local authorities governing less than 10 000 inhabitants or other public authorities employing fewer than 250 persons and having an annual budget not exceeding EUR 50 million, or an annual balance sheet not exceeding EUR 43 million, including all of the following:
(i) government or other public administrations, or public advisory bodies at national, regional or local level;
(ii) natural or legal persons performing public administrative functions under national law, including specific duties, activities or services in relation to the environment; and
(iii) natural or legal persons having public responsibilities or functions, or providing public services, relating to the environment under the control of a body or person referred to in point (b);
29. «corporate registration» means a single registration of all or some sites of an organisation with sites located in one or more Member States or third countries;
30. «Accreditation Body» means a national accreditation body appointed pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 which is responsible for the accreditation and supervision of environmental verifiers;
31. «Licensing Body» means a body appointed in accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 which is responsible for issuing licences to, and for supervising, environmental verifiers.
Determination of the Competent Body
1. Applications for registration from organisations in a Member State shall be made to a Competent Body in that Member State.
2. An organisation with sites located in one or more Member States or third countries may apply for one single corporate registration of all or some of those sites.
Applications for a single corporate registration shall be made to a Competent Body of the Member State where the organisation's headquarters or management centre designated for the purpose of this paragraph is located.
3. Applications for registration from organisations outside the Community, including corporate registration consisting only of sites located outside the Community, shall be made to any Competent Body in those Member States that provide for the registration of organisations from outside the Community in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 11(1).
Those organisations shall ensure that the environmental verifier which will carry out the verification and validate the environmental management system of the organisation is accredited or licensed in the Member State where the organisation applies for registration.
1. Organisations wishing to be registered for the first time shall:
(a) carry out an environmental review of all environmental aspects of the organisation in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex I and in point A.3.1 of Annex II;
(b) in the light of the results of the environmental review, develop and implement an environmental management system covering all the requirements referred to in Annex II, and, where available, taking into account the best environmental management practice for the relevant sector referred to in Article 46(1)(a);
(c) carry out an internal audit in accordance with the requirements set out in point A.5.5 of Annex II and Annex III;
(d) prepare an environmental statement, in accordance with Annex IV. Where sectoral reference documents as referred to in Article 46 are available for the specific sector, the assessment of the organisation's environmental performance shall take into account the relevant document.
2. Organisations may use the assistance referred to in Article 32 that is available in the Member State where the organisation applies for registration.
3. Organisations which have a certified environmental management system, recognised in accordance with Article 45(4), shall not be obliged to carry out those parts which have been recognised as equivalent to this Regulation.
4. Organisations shall provide material or documentary evidence showing that the organisation complies with all applicable legal requirements relating to the environment.
Organisations may request information from the competent enforcement authority or authorities in accordance with Article 32 or the environmental verifier.
Organisations outside the Community shall also make reference to the legal requirements relating to the environment applicable to similar organisations in the Member States where they intend to submit an application.
Where sectoral reference documents as referred to in Article 46 are available for the specific sector, the assessment of the organisation's environmental performance shall be made with reference to the relevant document.
5. The initial environmental review, the environment management system, the audit procedure and its implementation shall be verified by an accredited or licensed environmental verifier and the environmental statement shall be validated by that verifier.
1. Any organisation meeting requirements set out in Article 4 may apply for registration.
2. The application for registration shall be made to the Competent Body determined in accordance with Article 3 and shall include the following:
(a) the validated environmental statement in electronic or printed form;
(b) the declaration as referred to in Article 25(9), signed by the environmental verifier which validated the environmental statement;
(c) a completed form, which includes at least the minimum information on as set out in Annex VI;
(d) evidence of payment of applicable fees, if applicable.
3. The application shall be written in (one of) the official language(s) of the Member State in which the organisation applies for registration.
1. A registered organisation shall at least on a three-yearly basis:
(a) have the full environmental management system and audit programme and its implementation verified;
(b) prepare the environmental statement in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex IV and have it validated by an environmental verifier;
(c) forward the validated environmental statement to the Competent Body;
(d) forward to the Competent Body a completed form, which includes at least the minimum information set out in Annex VI;
(e) pay a fee for the renewal of the registration to the Competent Body, if applicable.
2. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, in the intervening years, a registered organisation shall:
(a) in accordance with the audit programme, carry out an internal audit of its environmental performance and compliance with applicable legal requirements relating to the environment in accordance with Annex III;
(b) prepare an updated environmental statement in accordance with the requirements laid down in Annex IV, and have it validated by an environmental verifier;
(c) forward the validated updated environmental statement to the Competent Body;
(d) forward to the Competent Body a completed form, which includes at least the minimum information set out in Annex VI;
(e) pay a fee for the maintenance of the registration to the Competent Body, if applicable.
3. Registered organisations shall make their environmental statement and updated environmental statement accessible to the public within one month of registration and one month after the renewal of the registration is completed.
Registered organisations may satisfy that requirement by providing access to the environmental statement and the updated environmental statement upon request or by creating links to Internet sites where those statements can be accessed.
Registered organisations shall specify the way in which they provide public access in the form set out in Annex VI.
Derogation for small organisations
1. Competent Bodies shall, upon request of a small organisation, extend for that organisation the three-yearly frequency referred to in Article 6(1) up to four years or the annual frequency referred to in Article 6(2) up to two years, provided that the environmental verifier that has verified the organisation confirms that all the following conditions are met:
(a) no significant environmental risks are present;
(b) the organisation has no substantial changes planned as defined in Article 8, and
(c) there exist no significant local environmental problems that the organisation contributes to.
To submit the request referred to in the first subparagraph, the organisation may use the form set out in Annex VI.
2. The Competent Body shall refuse the request if the conditions set out in paragraph 1 are not met. It shall communicate a reasoned justification to the organisation.
3. Organisations benefiting from an extension of up to two years, as referred to in paragraph 1, shall forward the non-validated updated environmental statement to the Competent Body each year that they are exempt from the obligation to have a validated updated environmental statement.
1. Where a registered organisation plans to introduce substantial changes, the organisation shall carry out an environmental review of these changes, including their environmental aspects and impacts.
2. Following the environmental review of changes, the organisation shall update the initial environmental review, modify the environmental policy, the environmental programme and the environmental management system and revise and update the entire environmental statement accordingly.
3. All documents modified and updated pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be verified and validated within six months.
4. After validation, the organisation shall submit changes to the Competent Body using the form set out in Annex VI and make the changes publicly available.
1. A registered organisation shall establish an audit programme that ensures that over a period of time, not exceeding three years or four years if the derogation provided for in Article 7 applies, all activities in the organisation are subject to an internal environmental audit in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex III.
2. The audit shall be carried out by auditors who possess, individually or collectively, the competence necessary for carrying out these tasks and are sufficiently independent of the activities they audit to make an objective judgment.
3. The organisation's environmental auditing programme shall define the objectives of each audit or audit cycle including the audit frequency for each activity.
4. A written audit report shall be prepared by the auditors at the end of each audit and audit cycle.
5. The auditor shall communicate the findings and conclusions of the audit to the organisation.
6. Following the audit process, the organisation shall prepare and implement an appropriate action plan.
7. The organisation shall put in place appropriate mechanisms that ensure that the audit results are followed up.
1. Without prejudice to Article 35(2), the EMAS logo set out in Annex V may be used only by registered organisations and only as long as their registration is valid.
The logo shall always bear the registration number of the organisation.
2. The EMAS logo shall only be used in accordance with the technical specifications set out in Annex V.
3. In case an organisation chooses, in accordance with Article 3(2), not to include all its sites in the corporate registration, it shall ensure that in its communications with the public and in its use of the EMAS logo it is clear which sites are covered by the registration.
4. The EMAS logo shall not be used:
(a) on products or their packaging; or
(b) in conjunction with comparative claims concerning other activities and services or in a way that may create confusion with environmental product labels.
5. Any environmental information published by a registered organisation may bear the EMAS logo provided such information makes reference to the organisation's latest environmental statement or updated environmental statement from which it was drawn and it has been validated by an environmental verifier as being:
(b) substantiated and verifiable;
(c) relevant and used in an appropriate context or setting;
(d) representative of the overall environmental performance of the organisation;
(e) unlikely to result in misinterpretation; and
(f) significant in relation to the overall environmental impact.
Designation and role of Competent Bodies
1. Member States shall designate Competent Bodies, which shall be responsible for the registration of organisations located in the Community in accordance with this Regulation.
Member States may provide that the Competent Bodies they designate provide for and shall be responsible for the registration of organisations located outside the Community in accordance with this Regulation.
The Competent Bodies shall control the entry and maintenance of organisations on the register, including suspension and deletion.
2. The Competent Bodies may be national, regional or local.
3. The composition of the Competent Bodies shall guarantee their independence and neutrality.
4. The Competent Bodies shall have the appropriate resources, both financial and in terms of personnel, for the proper performance of their tasks.
5. The Competent Bodies shall apply this Regulation in a consistent manner and shall participate in regular peer evaluation as set out in Article 17.
Obligations concerning the registration process
1. Competent Bodies shall establish procedures for the registration of organisations. They shall in particular establish rules for:
(a) considering observations from interested parties, including Accreditation and Licensing Bodies and competent enforcement authorities and the organisations' representative bodies, concerning applicant or registered organisations;
(b) refusal of registration, suspension or deletion of organisations, and
(c) resolution of appeals and complaints made against their decisions.
2. Competent Bodies shall establish and maintain a register of organisations registered in their Member States, including information as to how their environmental statement or updated environmental statement can be obtained, and, in the case of changes, update that register on a monthly basis.
The register shall be publicly available on a website.
3. Competent Bodies shall each month, directly or via the national authorities as decided by the Member States concerned, communicate changes in the register referred to in paragraph 2 to the Commission.
1. Competent Bodies shall consider applications for registration of organisations in accordance with the procedures established to this end.
2. Where an organisation applies for registration, the Competent Body shall register that organisation and give it a registration number if all the following conditions are fulfilled:
(a) the Competent Body has received an application for registration, which includes all the documents referred to in Article 5(2)(a) to (d);
(b) the Competent Body has checked that the verification and validation have been carried out in accordance with Articles 25, 26 and 27;
(c) the Competent Body is satisfied on the basis of material evidence received, for example through a written report from the competent enforcement authority that there is no evidence of breach of applicable legal requirements relating to the environment;
(d) there are no relevant complaints from interested parties or complaints have been positively solved;
(e) the Competent Body is satisfied on the basis of evidence received that the organisation meets all the requirements of this Regulation; and
(f) the Competent Body has received a registration fee, if applicable.
3. The Competent Body shall inform the organisation that it has been registered and provide the organisation with its registration number and the EMAS logo.
4. If a Competent Body concludes that an applicant organisation does not comply with the requirements set out in paragraph 2, it shall refuse to register that organisation and communicate a reasoned justification to the organisation.
5. If a Competent Body receives a written supervision report from the Accreditation or Licensing Body which provides evidence that the activities of the environmental verifier were not performed adequately enough to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met by the applicant organisation, it shall refuse to register that organisation. The Competent Body shall invite the organisation to submit a new application for registration.
6. In order to obtain the necessary evidence for taking a decision on refusal of registration of organisations, the Competent Body shall consult the concerned parties including the organisation.
Renewal of the organisation's registration
1. A Competent Body shall renew the registration of the organisation if all the following conditions are fulfilled:
(a) the Competent Body has received a validated environmental statement as referred to in Article 6(1)(c), a validated updated environmental statement as referred to in Article 6(2)(c) or a non-validated updated environmental statement as referred to in Article 7(3);
(b) the Competent Body has received a completed form, which includes at least the minimum information set out in Annex VI, as referred to in Article 6(1)(d) and in Article 6(2)(d);
(c) the Competent Body has no evidence that the verification and validation have not been carried out in accordance with Articles 25, 26 and 27;
(d) the Competent Body has no evidence of non-compliance by the organisation with applicable legal requirements relating to the environment;
(e) there are no relevant complaints from interested parties or complaints have been positively solved;
(f) the Competent Body is satisfied on the basis of evidence received that the organisation meets all the requirements of this Regulation; and
(g) the Competent Body has received a fee for renewal of the registration, if applicable.
2. The Competent Body shall inform the organisation that its registration has been renewed.
Suspension or deletion of organisations from the register
1. Where a Competent Body believes that a registered organisation does not comply with this Regulation, it shall give the organisation the opportunity to submit its views on the matter. Should the organisation fail to provide a satisfactory response it shall be deleted or suspended from the register.
2. Where a Competent Body receives a written supervision report from the Accreditation or Licensing Body which provides evidence that the activities of the environmental verifier were not performed adequately enough to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met by the registered organisation, registration shall be suspended.
3. A registered organisation shall be suspended or deleted from the register, as appropriate, if it fails to submit to a Competent Body, within two months of being required to do so, any of the following:
(a) the validated environmental statement, an updated environmental statement or the signed declaration referred to in Article 25(9);
(b) a form which includes at least the minimum information set out in Annex VI from the organisation.
4. If a Competent Body is informed through a written report by the competent enforcement authority of a breach by the organisation of any applicable legal requirements relating to the environment, it shall suspend or delete the reference to that organisation from the register as appropriate.
5. In case a Competent Body decides to suspend or delete a registration it shall take into account at least the following:
(a) the environmental effect of the non-compliance by the organisation with the requirements of this Regulation;
(b) the foreseeability of the non-compliance by the organisation with the requirements of this Regulation or the circumstances leading to it;
(c) previous instances of non-compliance with the requirements of this Regulation by the organisation; and
(d) the specific circumstances of the organisation.
6. In order to obtain the necessary evidence for taking its decision on suspension or deletion of organisations from the register, the Competent Body shall consult the concerned parties including the organisation.
7. Where the Competent Body has received evidence, other than by means of a written supervision report of the Accreditation or Licensing Body, that activities of the environmental verifier were not performed adequately enough to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met by the organisation, it shall consult the Accreditation or Licensing Body supervising the environmental verifier.
8. The Competent Body shall give reasons for any measures taken.
9. The Competent Body shall provide appropriate information to the organisation concerning the consultations with the concerned parties.
10. Suspension of an organisation from the register shall be lifted if the Competent Body has received satisfactory information that the organisation is in compliance with the requirements of this Regulation.
1. A Forum of Competent Bodies from all Member States, hereinafter referred to as «the Forum of Competent Bodies», shall be set up by the Competent Bodies and meet at least once per year in the presence of a representative of the Commission.
The Forum of Competent Bodies shall adopt its rules of procedure.
2. Competent Bodies of each Member State shall participate in the Forum of Competent Bodies. Where several Competent Bodies are established within one Member State, appropriate measures shall be taken to ensure that all of them are informed about the activities of the Forum of Competent Bodies.
3. The Forum of Competent Bodies shall develop guidance to ensure the consistency of procedures relating to the registration of organisations in accordance with this Regulation, including renewal of registration and suspension and deletion of organisations from the register both inside and outside the Community.
The Forum of Competent Bodies shall transmit to the Commission the guidance documents and documents referring to the peer evaluation.
4. Guidance documents referring to harmonisation procedures approved by the Forum of Competent Bodies shall be proposed as appropriate by the Commission for adoption in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).
Those documents shall be made publicly available.
Peer evaluation of Competent Bodies
1. A peer evaluation shall be organised by the Forum of Competent Bodies to assess conformity of the registration system of every Competent Body with this Regulation and to develop a harmonised approach to the application of the rules relating to registration.
2. The peer evaluation shall be carried out on a regular basis and at least every four years, and shall include an assessment of the rules and procedures set out in Articles 12, 13 and 15. All Competent Bodies shall participate in the peer evaluation.
3. The Commission shall establish procedures for carrying out the peer evaluation, including appropriate appeals procedures against decisions taken as a result of the peer evaluation.
Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).
4. Procedures referred to in paragraph 3 shall be established before the first peer evaluation takes place.
5. The Forum of Competent Bodies shall transmit a regular report of the peer evaluation to the Commission and the Committee established under Article 49(1).
That report shall be made publicly available after approval by the Forum of Competent Bodies and the Committee referred to in the first subparagraph.
Tasks of Environmental verifiers
1. Environmental verifiers shall assess whether an organisation's environmental review, environmental policy, management system, audit procedures and their implementation comply with the requirements of this Regulation.
2. Environmental verifiers shall verify the following:
(a) compliance of the organisation with all the requirements of this Regulation with respect to the initial environmental review, environmental management system, environmental audit and its results and the environmental statement or updated environmental statement;
(b) compliance of the organisation with applicable Community, national, regional and local legal requirements relating to the environment;
(c) the organisation's continuous improvement of environmental performance; and
(d) the reliability, credibility and correctness of the data and information in the following documents:
(i) the environmental statement;
(ii) the updated environmental statement;
(iii) any environmental information to be validated.
3. Environmental verifiers shall, in particular, verify the appropriateness of the initial environmental review, or audit or other procedures carried out by the organisation, without unnecessarily duplicating those procedures.
4. Environmental verifiers shall verify whether the results of the internal audit are reliable. Where appropriate, they shall use spot-checks for that purpose.
5. At the time of the verification for the preparation for registration of an organisation, the environmental verifier shall check that at least the following requirements are met by that organisation:
(a) a fully operational environmental management system in accordance with Annex II is in place;
(b) a fully planned audit programme is in place and has begun in accordance with Annex III so that at least the most significant environmental impacts have been covered;
(c) the management review referred to in Part A of Annex II is completed; and
(d) an environmental statement is prepared in accordance with Annex IV and sectoral reference documents were taken into account, where available.
6. For the purposes of the verification for the renewal of registration referred to in Article 6(1), the environmental verifier shall check that the following requirements are met by the organisation:
(a) the organisation has a fully operational environmental management system in accordance with Annex II;
(b) the organisation has a fully operational planned audit programme, with at least one audit cycle completed in accordance with Annex III;
(c) the organisation has completed one management review; and
(d) the organisation has prepared an environmental statement in accordance with Annex IV and sectoral reference documents were taken into account, where available.
7. For the purposes of the verification for renewal of registration referred to in Article 6(2), the environmental verifier shall check that at least the following requirements are met by the organisation:
(a) the organisation has carried out an internal audit of the environmental performance and the compliance with applicable legal requirements relating to the environment in accordance with Annex III;
(b) the organisation demonstrates ongoing compliance with applicable legal requirements relating to the environment and continuous improvement of its environmental performance; and
(c) the organisation has prepared an updated environmental statement in accordance with Annex IV and, where available, sectoral reference documents were taken into account.
1. The environmental verifier shall design, in consultation with the organisation, a programme that ensures that all elements required for registration and renewal of registration referred to in Articles 4, 5 and 6 are verified.
2. The environmental verifier shall at intervals not exceeding 12 months validate any updated information in the environmental statement or updated environmental statement.
Where relevant, the derogation provided for in Article 7 shall apply.
Requirements for environmental verifiers
1. In order to obtain accreditation or a licence in accordance with this Regulation, a candidate environmental verifier shall introduce a request with the Accreditation or Licensing Body from which it seeks accreditation or a licence.
That request shall specify the scope of the requested accreditation or licence by reference to the classification of economic activities as set out in Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 <*>.
<*> Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 (OJ L 393, 30.12.2006, p. 1).
2. The environmental verifier shall provide to the Accreditation or Licensing Body appropriate evidence of its competence, including knowledge, relevant experience and technical capacities relevant to the scope of the requested accreditation or licence in the following fields:
(b) the general functioning of environmental management systems;
(c) relevant sectoral reference documents issued by the Commission, under Article 46, for the application of this Regulation;
(d) the legislative, regulatory and administrative requirements relevant to the activity subject to verification and validation;
(e) environmental aspects and impacts including the environmental dimension of sustainable development;
(f) the technical aspects, relevant to environmental issues, of the activity subject to verification and validation;
(g) the general functioning of the activity subject to verification and validation in order to assess the appropriateness of the management system, in relation to the interaction of the organisation and its products, services and operations with the environment including at least the following:
(i) technologies employed by the organisation;
(ii) terminology and tools deployed in the activities;
(iii) operational activities and characteristics of their interaction with the environment;
(iv) methodologies for the evaluation of significant environmental aspects;
(v) pollution control and mitigation technologies;
(h) environmental auditing requirements and methodology including the ability to undertake effective verification audits of an environmental management system, identification of appropriate audit findings and conclusions and preparation and presentation of audits reports, in oral and written forms, to provide a clear record of the verification audit;
(i) information audit, the environmental statement and the updated environmental statement in relation to data management, data storage and manipulation, presentation of data in written and graphical format for the appreciation of potential data errors, use of assumptions and estimates;
(j) the environmental dimension of products and services including the environmental aspects and environmental performance during the usage and post-use, and the integrity of data provided for environmental decision making.
3. The environmental verifier shall be required to demonstrate a continuing professional development in the fields of competence set out in paragraph 2 and to maintain such development for assessment by the Accreditation or Licensing Body.
4. The environmental verifier shall be an external third party, independent, in particular of the organisation's auditor or consultant, impartial and objective in performing its activities.
5. The environmental verifier shall ensure that it is free from any commercial, financial or other pressures which might influence its judgment or endanger trust in its independence of judgment and integrity in relation to the verification activities. The environmental verifier shall ensure compliance with any rules applicable in this respect.
6. The environmental verifier shall have documented methods and procedures, including quality control mechanisms and confidentiality provisions, to comply with the verification and validation requirements of this Regulation.
7. Where an organisation acts as environmental verifier, it shall keep an organisation chart detailing structures and responsibilities within the organisation and a statement of legal status, ownership and funding sources.
That organisation chart shall be made available on request.
8. Compliance with these requirements shall be ensured through the assessment carried out prior to the accreditation or licensing and through the supervision by the Accreditation or Licensing Body.
Additional requirements for environmental verifiers which are natural persons and performing verification and validation activities individually
Natural persons acting as environmental verifiers and performing verification and validation individually shall have, in addition to complying with the requirements set out in Article 20:
(a) all the necessary competence to perform verification and validation activities in their licensed fields;
(b) a limited scope of the licence dependent on their personal competence.
Additional requirements for environmental verifiers active in third countries
1. Where an environmental verifier intends to carry out verification and validation activities in third countries, it shall seek accreditation or licence for specific third countries.
2. In order to obtain accreditation or a licence for a third country, the environmental verifier shall meet, in addition to the requirements set out in Articles 20 and 21, the following requirements:
(a) knowledge and understanding of the legislative, regulatory and administrative requirements relating to the environment in the third country for which accreditation or a licence is sought;
(b) knowledge and understanding of the official language of the third country for which accreditation or a licence is sought.
3. The requirements set out in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to be met where the environmental verifier demonstrates the existence of a contractual relationship between itself and a qualified person or organisation fulfilling those requirements.
That person or organisation shall be independent of the organisation to be verified.
Supervision of environmental verifiers
1. Supervision of verification and validation activities carried out by environmental verifiers in:
(a) the Member State where they are accredited or licensed shall be carried out by the Accreditation or Licensing Body that granted the accreditation or licence;
(b) a third country shall be carried out by the Accreditation or Licensing Body that granted the accreditation or licence to the environmental verifier for those activities;
(c) a Member State other than where the accreditation or licence was granted shall be carried out by the Accreditation or Licensing Body of the Member State where the verification takes place.
2. At least four weeks in advance of each verification in a Member State, the environmental verifier shall notify its accreditation or licence details and the time and place of the verification to the Accreditation or Licensing Body responsible for the supervision of the environmental verifier concerned.
3. The environmental verifier shall immediately inform the Accreditation or Licensing Body of any changes which have a bearing on the accreditation or licence or their scope.
4. Provision shall be made by the Accreditation or Licensing Body, at regular intervals not exceeding 24 months, to ensure that the environmental verifier continues to comply with the accreditation or licence requirements and to monitor the quality of the verification and validation activities undertaken.
5. Supervision may consist of an office audit, on-the-spot supervision in organisations, questionnaires, a review of environmental statements or updated environmental statements validated by the environmental verifiers and review of the verification report.
Supervision shall be proportionate to the activity undertaken by the environmental verifier.
6. Organisations must allow the Accreditation or Licensing Bodies to supervise the environmental verifier during the verification and validation process.
7. Any decision taken by the Accreditation or Licensing Body to terminate or suspend the accreditation or licence or restrict the scope of the accreditation or licence shall be taken only after the environmental verifier has had the possibility of a hearing.
8. If the supervising Accreditation or Licensing Body is of the opinion that the quality of the work of an environmental verifier does not meet the requirements of this Regulation, a written supervision report shall be transmitted to the environmental verifier concerned and to the Competent Body to which the organisation concerned intends to apply for registration or which registered the organisation concerned.
In the case of any further dispute, the supervision report shall be transmitted to the Forum of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies referred to in Article 30.
Additional requirements for supervision of environmental verifiers active in a Member State other than that where the accreditation or license was granted
1. An environmental verifier accredited or licensed in one Member State shall, at least four weeks before performing verification and validation activities in another Member State, notify to the Accreditation or Licensing Body of the latter Member State the following information:
(a) its accreditation or licence details, competences, in particular knowledge of legal requirements relating to the environment and official language of the other Member State, and team composition if appropriate;
(b) the time and place of the verification and validation;
(c) the address and contact details of the organisation.
That notification shall be provided before each verification and validation activity.
2. The Accreditation or Licensing Body may request clarification of the verifier's knowledge of the necessary applicable legal requirements relating to the environment.
3. The Accreditation or Licensing Body may require conditions other than those referred to in paragraph 1 only where those other conditions do not prejudice the right of the environmental verifier to provide services in a Member State other than the one where the accreditation or licence was granted.
4. The Accreditation or Licensing Body shall not use the procedure referred to in paragraph 1 to delay the arrival of the environmental verifier. Where the Accreditation or Licensing Body is not able to fulfil its tasks in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 before the time for verification and validation as notified by the verifier in accordance with paragraph 1(b), it shall communicate a reasoned justification to the verifier.
5. No discriminatory fees for notification and supervision shall be charged by the Accreditation or Licensing Bodies.
6. Where the supervising Accreditation or Licensing Body is of the opinion that the quality of the work of the environmental verifier does not meet the requirements of this Regulation, a written supervision report shall be transmitted to the environmental verifier concerned, the Accreditation or Licensing Body which granted the accreditation or licence, and the Competent Body to which the organisation concerned intends to apply for registration or which registered the organisation concerned. In the case of any further dispute the supervision report shall be transmitted to the Forum of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies referred to in Article 30.
Conditions for performing verification and validation
1. The environmental verifier shall operate within the scope of its accreditation or licence, and on the basis of a written agreement with the organisation.
(a) specify the scope of the activity;
(b) specify conditions aimed at enabling the environmental verifier to operate in an independent professional manner; and
(c) commit the organisation to providing the necessary cooperation.
2. The environmental verifier shall ensure that the components of the organisation are unambiguously defined and correspond to a real division of the activities.
The environmental statement shall clearly specify the different parts of the organisation that are subject to verification or validation.
3. The environmental verifier shall carry out an assessment of the elements set out in Article 18.
4. As part of the verification and validation activities the environmental verifier shall examine documentation, visit the organisation, carry out spot-checks and conduct interviews with personnel.
5. Prior to a visit by the environmental verifier, the organisation shall provide it with basic information about the organisation and its activities, the environmental policy and programme, the description of the environmental management system in operation in the organisation, details of the environmental review or audit carried out, the report on that review or audit and on any corrective action taken afterwards, and the draft environmental statement or updated environmental statement.
6. The environmental verifier shall prepare a written report for the organisation, on the outcome of the verification, which shall specify:
(a) all issues relevant to the activity carried out by the environmental verifier;
(b) a description of conformity with all requirements of this Regulation including supporting evidence, findings and conclusions;
(c) the comparison of the achievements and targets with the previous environmental statements and the environmental performance assessment and assessment of the continuous environmental performance improvement of the organisation;
(d) if applicable, technical defects in the environmental review, audit method, environmental management system, or any other relevant process.
7. In cases of non-conformity with the provisions of this Regulation, the report shall specify in addition:
(a) findings and conclusions on the non-conformity by the organisation and evidence on which those findings and conclusion are based;
(b) points of disagreement with the draft environmental statement or updated environmental statement, and details of the amendments or additions that should be made to the environmental statement or updated environmental statement.
8. After verification, the environmental verifier shall validate the organisation's environmental statement or updated environmental statement and confirm that it meets the requirements of this Regulation provided that the outcome of the verification and validation confirms that:
(a) the information and data in the organisation's environmental statement or updated environmental statement are reliable and correct and meet the requirements of this Regulation; and
(b) there is no evidence that the organisation does not fulfil applicable legal requirements relating to the environment.
9. Upon validation, the environmental verifier shall issue a signed declaration as referred to in Annex VII declaring that the verification and validation were carried out in accordance with this Regulation.
10. Environmental verifiers accredited or licensed in one Member State may perform verification and validation activities in any other Member State in accordance with the requirements set out in this Regulation.
The verification or validation activity shall be subject to supervision by the Accreditation or Licensing Body of the Member State where the activity is to be performed. The start of the activity shall be notified to that Accreditation or Licensing Body in accordance with the timing set out in Article 24(1).
Verification and validation of small organisations
1. When carrying out verification and validation activities, the environmental verifier shall take into account specific characteristics of small organisations, including the following:
(d) the ability to adapt rapidly to change; and
(e) limited documentation of procedures.
2. The environmental verifier shall conduct verification or validation in a way that does not impose unnecessary burdens on small organisations.
3. The environmental verifier shall take into account objective evidence that a system is effective, including the existence of procedures within the organisation that are proportionate to the size and complexity of the operation, the nature of the associated environmental impacts and the competence of the operators.
Conditions for verification and validation in third countries
1. Environmental verifiers accredited or licensed in a Member State may perform verification and validation activities for an organisation located in a third country in accordance with the requirements set out in this Regulation.
2. At least six weeks before verification or validation in a third country, the environmental verifier shall notify its accreditation or licence details and the time and place of the verification or validation to the Accreditation or Licensing Body of the Member State in which the organisation concerned intends to apply for registration or is registered.
3. The verification and validation activities shall be subject to supervision by the Accreditation or Licensing Body of the Member State in which the environmental verifier is accredited or licensed. The start of the activity shall be notified to that Accreditation or Licensing Body in accordance with the timing set out in paragraph 2.
Operation of Accreditation and Licensing
1. Accreditation Bodies appointed by the Member States pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 shall be responsible for the accreditation of environmental verifiers and the supervision of the activities carried out by environmental verifiers in accordance with this Regulation.
2. Member States may appoint a Licensing Body, in accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008, which shall be responsible for issuing licences to and supervising environmental verifiers.
3. Member States may decide not to allow the accreditation or licensing of natural persons as environmental verifiers.
4. Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall assess an environmental verifier's competence in the light of the elements set out in Articles 20, 21 and 22 relevant to the scope of the requested accreditation or licence.
5. The scope of accreditation or the licence of environmental verifiers shall be determined according to the classification of economic activities as set out in Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006. That scope shall be limited by the competence of the environmental verifier and, where appropriate, it shall take into account the size and complexity of the activity.
6. Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall establish appropriate procedures on accreditation or licensing, refusal of accreditation or a licence, suspension and withdrawal of accreditation or a licence of environmental verifiers and on supervision of environmental verifiers.
Those procedures shall include mechanisms for considering observations from concerned parties, including Competent Bodies and the representative bodies of organisations, concerning applicants and accredited or licensed environmental verifiers.
7. In the case of a refusal of accreditation or licence, the Accreditation or Licensing Body shall inform the environmental verifier of the reasons for the decision.
8. Accreditation or Licensing Bodies shall establish, revise and update a list of environmental verifiers and their scope of accreditation or licence in their Member States and shall communicate each month, directly or via the national authorities as decided by the Member State concerned, changes in that list to the Commission and to the Competent Body of the Member State where the Accreditation or Licensing Body is located.
9. Within the framework of the rules and procedures regarding monitoring of activities as laid down in Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008, Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall draw up a supervision report where they decide, after consultation with the environmental verifier concerned, either of the following:
(a) that the activities of the environmental verifier were not performed adequately enough to ensure that the requirements of this Regulation are met by the organisation;
(b) that the verification and the validation by the environmental verifier were carried out in violation of one or more of the requirements of this Regulation.
This report shall be transmitted to the Competent Body in the Member State where the organisation is registered or applies for registration and, if applicable, to the Accreditation or Licensing Body that granted the accreditation or licence.
Suspension and withdrawal of accreditation or license
1. Suspension or withdrawal of the accreditation or licence shall require the consultation of concerned parties including the environmental verifier, in order to provide the Accreditation or Licensing Body with the necessary evidence for taking its decision.
2. The Accreditation or Licensing Body shall inform the environmental verifier of the reasons for the measures taken and, if applicable, of the process of discussion with the competent enforcement authority.
3. The accreditation or licence shall be suspended or withdrawn until assurance of the environmental verifier's compliance with this Regulation is obtained, as appropriate, depending on the nature and scope of the failure or violation of legal requirements.
4. Suspension of the accreditation or licence shall be lifted where the Accreditation or Licensing Body has received satisfactory information that the environmental verifier complies with this Regulation.
Forum of the Accreditation and Licensing Bodies
1. A forum constituted of all the Accreditation and Licensing Bodies from all Member States, hereinafter referred to as «the Forum of the Accreditation and Licensing Bodies», shall be set up and meet at least once per year in the presence of a representative of the Commission.
2. The task of the Forum of the Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall be to ensure the consistency of procedures relating to the following:
(a) the accreditation or licensing of environmental verifiers under this Regulation, including refusal, suspension and withdrawal of accreditation or licence;
(b) the supervision of activities carried out by accredited or licensed environmental verifiers.
3. The Forum of the Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall develop guidance on issues in the field of the competence of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies.
4. The Forum of the Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall adopt its rules of procedure.
5. The guidance documents referred to in paragraph 3 and the rules of procedure referred to in paragraph 4 shall be transmitted to the Commission.
6. Guidance documents referring to harmonisation procedures approved by the Forum of the Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall be proposed as appropriate by the Commission for adoption in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).
These documents shall be made publicly available.
Peer evaluation of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies
1. The peer evaluation with regard to accreditation and licensing of environmental verifiers under this Regulation to be organised by the Forum of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies, shall be carried out on a regular basis, at least every four years, and shall include an assessment of the rules and procedures set out in Articles 28 and 29.
All Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall participate in the peer evaluation.
2. The Forum of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies shall transmit a regular report of the peer evaluation to the Commission and the Committee established under Article 49(1).
That report shall be made publicly available after approval by the Forum of Accreditation and Licensing Bodies and the Committee referred to in the first subparagraph.
Assistance to organisations relating to compliance with legal requirements relating to the environment
1. Member States shall ensure that organisations get access to information and assistance possibilities regarding legal requirements relating to the environment in that Member State.
2. The assistance shall include the following:
(a) information regarding the applicable legal requirements relating to the environment;
(b) identification of the competent enforcement authorities for specific legal requirements relating to the environment that have been identified as being applicable.
3. Member States may confer the tasks referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 to the Competent Bodies or to any other body having the necessary expertise and the appropriate resources to fulfil the task.
4. Member States shall ensure that enforcement authorities reply to requests, at least from small organisations, on the applicable legal requirements relating to the environment that fall within their competence, and provide information to the organisations on the means of showing how the organisations meet relevant legal requirements.
5. Member States shall ensure that competent enforcement authorities communicate a failure by registered organisations to comply with applicable legal requirements relating to the environment to the Competent Body which has registered the organisation.
The competent enforcement authority shall inform that Competent Body as soon as possible and in any case within one month after it has become aware of the failure.
1. Member States shall, in conjunction with Competent Bodies, enforcement authorities and other relevant stakeholders, promote the EMAS scheme taking into account activities referred to in Articles 34 to 38.
2. To that end, Member States may establish a promotion strategy which shall be revised on a regular basis.
1. Member States shall take appropriate measures to provide information to:
(a) the public about the objectives and principal components of EMAS;
(b) organisations about the contents of this Regulation.
2. Member States shall, where appropriate, use professional publications, local journals, promotion campaigns or any other functional means to increase general awareness of EMAS.
Member States may cooperate, in particular, with industrial associations, consumer organisations, environmental organisations, trade unions, local institutions and other relevant stakeholders.
1. Member States shall carry out promotion activities for EMAS. These activities may include:
(a) the promotion of the exchange of knowledge and best practices on EMAS among all concerned parties;
(b) the development of effective tools for EMAS promotion and to share them with organisations;
(c) the provision of technical support to organisations in the definition and implementation of their EMAS-related marketing activities;
(d) the encouragement of partnerships among organisations for EMAS promotion.
2. The EMAS logo without a registration number may be used by Competent Bodies, Accreditation and Licensing Bodies, national authorities and other stakeholders for EMAS-related marketing and promotional purposes. In such cases, use of the EMAS logo set out in Annex V shall not suggest that the user is registered where this is not the case.
Promotion of participation of small organisations
Member States shall take adequate measures to encourage the participation of small organisations, inter alia, by:
(a) facilitating access to information and support funds specially adapted to them;
(b) ensuring that reasonable registration fees encourage their participation;
(c) promoting technical assistance measures.
Cluster and step-by-step approach
1. Member States shall encourage local authorities to provide, in participation with industrial associations, chambers of commerce and other concerned parties, specific assistance to clusters of organisations to meet the requirements for registration as referred to in Articles 4, 5 and 6.
Each organisation from the cluster shall be registered separately.
2. Member States shall encourage organisations to implement an environment management system. They shall in particular encourage a step-by-step approach leading to EMAS registration.
3. Systems established pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 shall operate with the objective of avoiding unnecessary costs for participants, in particular for small organisations.
EMAS and other policies and instruments in the Community
1. Without prejudice to Community legislation, Member States shall consider how registration under EMAS in accordance with this Regulation can be:
(a) taken into account in the development of new legislation;
(b) used as a tool in the application and enforcement of legislation;
(c) taken into account in public procurement and purchasing.
2. Without prejudice to Community legislation, notably competition, taxation and State aid legislation, Member States shall, where appropriate, take measures facilitating organisations to become or remain EMAS registered.
Those measures may include, inter alia, the following:
(a) regulatory relief, so that a registered organisation is considered as being compliant with certain legal requirements relating to the environment laid down in other legal instruments, identified by the competent authorities;
(b) better regulation, whereby other legal instruments are modified so that burdens on organisations participating in EMAS are removed, reduced or simplified with a view to encouraging the efficient operation of markets and raising the level of competitiveness.
1. Member States may charge fees taking into account the following:
(a) the costs incurred in connection with the provision of information and assistance to organisations by the bodies designated or set up to that end by Member States pursuant to Article 32;
(b) the costs incurred in connection with the accreditation, licensing and supervision of environmental verifiers;
(c) the costs for registration, renewal of registration, suspension and deletion by Competent Bodies as well as the additional costs of administering those processes for organisations outside the Community.
Those fees shall not exceed a reasonable amount and shall be proportionate to the size of the organisation and to the work to be done.
2. Member States shall ensure that organisations are informed about all applicable fees.
1. Member States shall take appropriate legal or administrative measures in case of non-compliance with this Regulation.
2. Member States shall put in place effective provisions against the use of the EMAS logo in violation of this Regulation.
Provisions put in place in accordance with Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market <*> may be used.
<*> OJ L 149, 11.6.2005, p. 22.
Information and reporting to the Commission
1. Member States shall inform the Commission of the structure and procedures relating to the functioning of the Competent Bodies and Accreditation and Licensing Bodies and shall update that information, where appropriate.
2. Every two years, Member States shall report to the Commission updated information on the measures taken pursuant to this Regulation.
In those reports, Member States shall take account of the latest report presented by the Commission to the European Parliament and to the Council pursuant to Article 47.
1. The Commission shall provide information to:
(a) the public on the objectives and principal components of EMAS;
(b) organisations on the content of this Regulation.
2. The Commission shall maintain and make publicly available:
(a) a register of environmental verifiers and registered organisations;
(b) a database of environmental statements in electronic format;
(c) a database of best practices on EMAS, including, inter alia, effective tools for EMAS promotion and examples of technical support to organisations;
(d) a list of Community resources for the funding of EMAS implementation and related projects and activities.
Collaboration and coordination
1. The Commission shall promote, as appropriate, collaboration between Member States in order, in particular, to achieve a uniform and consistent application of the rules throughout the Community relating to the following:
(a) registration of organisations;
(c) the information and assistance referred to in Article 32.
2. Without prejudice to Community legislation on public procurement, the Commission and other Community institutions and bodies shall, where appropriate, refer to EMAS or other environmental management systems recognised in accordance with Article 45, or equivalent, as contract performance conditions for works and service contracts.
Integration of EMAS into other policies and instruments in the Community
The Commission shall consider how registration under EMAS in accordance with this Regulation can be:
1. taken into account in the development of new legislation and revision of existing legislation, in particular in the form of regulatory relief and better regulation as described in Article 38(2);
2. used as a tool in the context of application and enforcement of legislation.
Relationship with other environmental management systems
1. Member States may submit to the Commission a written request for recognition of existing environmental management systems, or parts thereof, that are certified in accordance with appropriate certification procedures recognised at national or regional level as complying with corresponding requirements of this Regulation.
2. Member States shall specify in their request the relevant parts of the environmental management systems and the corresponding requirements of this Regulation.
3. Member States shall provide evidence of the equivalence with this Regulation of all relevant parts of the environmental management system concerned.
4. The Commission shall, after examination of the request referred to in paragraph 1, and acting in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 49(2), recognise the relevant parts of the environmental management systems and recognise the accreditation or licensing requirements for the certification bodies if it is of the opinion that a Member State has:
(a) specified sufficiently clearly in the request the relevant parts of the environmental management systems and the corresponding requirements of this Regulation;
(b) provided sufficient evidence of the equivalence with this Regulation of all relevant parts of the environmental management system at stake.
5. The Commission shall publish the references of the recognised environmental management systems, including the relevant sections of EMAS referred to in Annex I to which those references apply, and the recognised accreditation or licensing requirements in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Development of reference documents and guides
1. The Commission shall, in consultation with Member States and other stakeholders, develop sectoral reference documents that shall include:
(a) best environmental management practice;
(b) environmental performance indicators for specific sectors;
(c) where appropriate, benchmarks of excellence and rating systems identifying environmental performance levels.
The Commission may also develop reference documents for cross-sectoral use.
2. The Commission shall take into account existing reference documents and environmental performance indicators developed in accordance with other environmental policies and instruments in the Community or international standards.
3. The Commission shall establish, by the end of 2010, a working plan setting out an indicative list of sectors, which will be considered priorities for the adoption of sectoral and cross-sectoral reference documents.
The working plan shall be made publicly available and regularly updated.
4. The Commission shall, in cooperation with the Forum of Competent Bodies, develop a guide on registration of organisations outside the Community.
5. The Commission shall publish a user's guide setting out the steps needed to participate in EMAS.
That guide shall be available in all official languages of the institutions of the European Union and online.
6. Documents developed in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 4 shall be submitted for adoption. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).
Every five years, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and to the Council a report containing information on the actions and measures taken under this Chapter and information received from the Member States pursuant to Article 41.
The report shall include an assessment of the impact of the scheme on the environment and the trend in terms of number of participants.
1. The Commission may amend the Annexes if necessary or appropriate, in the light of experience gained in the operation of EMAS, in response to identified needs for guidance on EMAS requirements and in the light of any changes in international standards or new standards which are of relevance to the effectiveness of this Regulation.
2. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).
1. The Commission shall be assisted by a Committee.
2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 3 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.
3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.
The Commission shall review EMAS in the light of the experience gained during its operation and international developments by 11 January 2015. It shall take into account the reports transmitted to the European Parliament and to the Council in accordance with Article 47.
Repeal and transitional provisions
1. The following legal acts shall be repealed:
(a) Regulation (EC) No 761/2001;
(b) Commission Decision 2001/681/EC of 7 September 2001 on guidance for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council allowing voluntary participation by organisations in a Community Eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) <*>;
<*> OJ L 247, 17.9.2001, p. 24.
(c) Commission Decision 2006/193/EC of 1 March 2006 laying down rules, under Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the use of the EMAS logo in the exceptional cases of transport packaging and tertiary packaging <*>.
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1:
(a) national Accreditation Bodies and Competent Bodies set up pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 shall continue their activities. Member States shall modify the procedures followed by Accreditation Bodies and Competent Bodies in accordance with this Regulation. Member States shall ensure that the systems implementing the modified procedures are fully operational by 11 January 2011;
(b) organisations registered in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 shall remain on the EMAS register. At the time of the next verification of an organisation the environmental verifier shall check its compliance with the new requirements of this Regulation. If the next verification is to be carried out before 11 July 2010, the date of the next verification may be extended by six months in agreement with the environmental verifier and the Competent Bodies;
(c) environmental verifiers accredited in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 may continue to perform their activities in accordance with the requirements established by this Regulation.
3. References to Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 shall be construed as references to this Regulation and be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex VIII.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
The environmental review shall cover the following areas:
The organisation shall determine those external and internal issues that can affect positively or negatively its ability to achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system.
Such issues include relevant environmental conditions such as climate, air quality, water quality, natural resources availability, biodiversity.
They may also include but are not limited to the following conditions:
- external conditions (such as cultural, social, political, legal, regulatory, financial, technological, economic, natural and competitive circumstances),
- internal conditions related to the organisation characteristics (such as its activities, products and services, strategic direction, culture and capabilities).
The organisation shall determine the interested parties that are relevant to the environmental management system, the relevant needs and expectations of these interested parties and which of these needs and expectations it has or it chooses to comply with.
If the organisation decides to voluntarily adopt or agree with relevant needs or expectations of interested parties not covered by legal requirements, those become part of its compliance obligations.
In addition to the establishment of a register of applicable legal requirements, the organisation shall also indicate how evidence that it is complying with the different legal requirements can be provided.
The organisation shall identify all direct and indirect environmental aspects with a positive or negative impact on the environment, qualified and quantified as appropriate and compile a register of all identified environmental aspects. The organisation shall also determine which of those aspects are significant based on criteria established in accordance with point 5 of this Annex.
When identifying direct and indirect environmental aspects it is essential that organisations also consider the environmental aspects associated with their core business. An inventory limited to the environmental aspects of an organisation's site and facilities is insufficient.
When identifying direct and indirect environmental aspects of its activities, products and services the organisation shall adopt a life cycle perspective, by taking into account the life cycle stages that it can control or influence. Such stages typically include raw material acquisition, purchasing and procurement, design, production, transportation, use, end-of-life treatment and final disposal depending on the activity of the organisation.
Direct environmental aspects are associated with activities, products and services of the organisation itself over which it has direct management control.
All organisations have to consider the direct aspects of their operations.
Direct environmental aspects include, but are not limited to:
(2) releases to water (including infiltrations to groundwater),
(3) production, recycling, reuse, transportation and disposal of solid and other wastes, particularly hazardous wastes;
(4) use and contamination of land;
(5) use of energy, natural resources (including water, fauna and flora) and raw materials;
(6) use of additives and auxiliaries as well as semi-manufactured goods;
(7) local issues (noise, vibration, odour, dust, visual appearance, etc.).
When identifying the environmental aspects, the following should also be considered:
- risks of environmental accidents and other emergency situations with a potential environmental impact (e.g. chemical accidents) and potential abnormal situations that could lead to a potential environmental impact,
- transport issues for goods and services and for staff travelling on company business
Indirect environmental aspects can result from the interaction of an organisation with third parties which can to a reasonable degree be influenced by the organisation.
These include, but are not limited to:
(1) product and services life-cycle-related issues that the organisation can influence (raw material acquisition, design, purchasing and procurement, production, transportation, use, end-of-life treatment and final disposal);
(2) capital investments, granting loans and insurance services;
(4) choice and composition of services (e.g. transport or the catering trade);
(5) administrative and planning decisions;
(6) product range compositions;
(7) the environmental performance and practices of contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and sub-suppliers.
Organisations must be able to demonstrate that the significant environmental aspects and impacts associated with these aspects are addressed within the management system.
The organisation should endeavour to ensure that the suppliers and those acting on the organisation's behalf comply with the organisation's environmental policy within the remit of the activities carried out for the contract.
An organisation shall consider how much influence it can have over those indirect environmental aspects, and what measures it can take to reduce the environmental impact or to increase the environmental benefit.
An organisation shall define the criteria for assessing the significance of the environmental aspects of its activities, products and services and apply these to determine which environmental aspects have a significant environmental impact considering a life cycle perspective.
The criteria developed by an organisation shall take into account the legislation and shall be comprehensive, capable of independent checking, reproducible and made publicly available.
When establishing these criteria an organisation shall consider the following elements:
(1) potential harm or benefit to the environment including biodiversity;
(2) the condition of the environment (such as the fragility of the local, regional or global environment);
(3) size, number, frequency and reversibility of the aspect or impact;
(4) existence and requirements of relevant environmental legislation;
(5) views of the interested parties, including employees of the organisation.
Additional relevant elements may be considered depending on the type of activities, products and services of the organisation.
Based on the established criteria the organisation shall assess the significance of its environmental aspects and impacts. To do so the organisation shall take into account considerations that may include but are not limited to:
(1) the organisation's existing data on material and energy inputs, discharges, wastes and emissions in terms of risk;
(2) activities of the organisation that are regulated by environmental legislation;
(4) design, development, manufacturing, distribution, servicing, use, re-use, recycling and disposal of the organisation's products;
(5) those activities of the organisation with the most significant environmental costs, and environmental benefits.
In assessing the significance of the environmental impacts of the organisation's activities the organisation shall consider normal operating conditions, start-up and shutdown conditions and reasonably foreseeable emergency conditions. Account shall be taken of past, present and planned activities.
The organisation shall take into account the feedback from the investigation of previous incidents that could influence its ability to achieve the intended outcomes of its environmental management system.
The organisation shall determine and document risks and opportunities associated with its environmental aspects, compliance obligations and other issues and requirements identified in points 1 to 4.
The organisation shall focus on those risks and opportunities that should be addressed to assure that the environmental management system can achieve its intended outcome, to prevent undesired effects or accident and to achieve continual improvement of the environmental performance of the organisation.
The organisation shall examine existing processes, practices and procedures and determine which are needed in order to ensure the long-term maintenance of the environmental management.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND ADDITIONAL ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED BY ORGANISATIONS IMPLEMENTING EMAS
The environmental management system requirements under EMAS are those laid down in Section 4 to 10 of the EN ISO 14001:2015 standard. Those requirements are reproduced in Part A.
The references made in Article 4 to specific points of this Annex should be understood as follows:
Reference to A.3.1 should be understood as reference to Part A 6.1
Reference to A 5.5 should be understood as reference to Part A 9.2.
In addition, organisations implementing EMAS are required to address a number of additional issues that have a direct link to a number of elements of Section 4 of the EN ISO 14001:2015 standard. Those additional requirements are listed in Part B of this Annex.
The audit programme shall guarantee that the management of the organisation is provided with the information it needs to review the organisation's environmental performance and the effectiveness of the environmental management system, and be able to demonstrate that they are under control.
The objectives shall include, in particular, assessing the management systems in place, and determining conformity with the organisation's policy and programme, which shall include compliance with legal requirements and other requirements relating to the environment.
The overall scope of the individual audits, or of each stage of an audit cycle where appropriate, shall be clearly defined and shall explicitly specify the:
(3) environmental criteria to be considered;
(4) period covered by the audit.
Environmental audit includes assessment of the factual data necessary to evaluate environmental performance.
The audit or audit cycle which covers all activities of the organisation shall be completed, as appropriate, at intervals of no longer than three years or four years if the derogation provided for in Article 7 applies. The frequency with which any activity is audited will vary depending on the:
(1) nature, scale and complexity of the activities;
(2) significance of associated environmental impacts;
(3) importance and urgency of the problems detected by previous audits;
(4) history of environmental problems.
More complex activities with a more significant environmental impact shall be audited more frequently.
The organisation shall carry out audits at least on an annual basis, as this will help to demonstrate to the organisation's management and the environmental verifier that it is in control of its significant environmental aspects.
The organisation shall carry out audits regarding:
(1) the environmental performance of the organisation; and
(2) the organisation's compliance with applicable legal requirements and other requirements relating to the environment.
Audit activities shall include discussions with personnel regarding environmental performance, inspection of operating conditions and equipment and reviewing of records, written procedures and other relevant documentation. Those activities shall be conducted with the objective of evaluating the environmental performance of the activity being audited to determine whether it meets the applicable standards, regulations or environmental objectives and targets. It shall also determine whether the system in place to manage environmental responsibilities and performance is effective and appropriate and will therefore include, inter alia, spot-checking of compliance with these criteria to determine the effectiveness of the entire management system.
The following steps, in particular, shall be included in the audit process:
(1) understanding of the management systems;
(2) assessing strengths and weaknesses of the management systems;
(3) gathering evidence to show where the management system is and is not performing;
(4) evaluating audit findings;
(5) preparing audit conclusions;
(6) reporting audit findings and conclusions.
The fundamental objectives of a written audit report are:
(1) to document the scope of the audit;
(2) to inform the management on the state of compliance with the organisations' environmental policy and the environmental progress of the organisation;
(3) to inform the management on the state of compliance with legal requirements and other requirements relating to the environment and on the measures taken to ensure that compliance can be demonstrated;
(4) to inform the management on the effectiveness and reliability of the measures taken to monitor and mitigate environmental impacts of the organisation;
(5) to demonstrate the need for corrective actions, where appropriate.
The written audit report shall contain the necessary information to comply with those objectives.
Environmental information shall be presented in a clear and coherent manner and should preferably be available in electronic form. The organisation shall determine the best format to make this information available to their interested parties in a user-friendly way.
The environmental statement shall contain at least the elements and shall meet the minimum requirements as set out below.
(a) a summary of the organisation's activities, products and services, the organisation's relationship to any parent organisations as appropriate and a clear and unambiguous description of the scope of the EMAS registration including a list of the sites included in this registration;
(b) the environmental policy and a brief description of the governance structure supporting the environmental management system of the organisation;
(c) a description of all the significant direct and indirect environmental aspects which result in significant environmental impacts of the organisation, a brief description of the approach used to determine their significance and an explanation of the nature of the impacts as related to these aspects;
(d) a description of the environmental objectives and targets in relation to the significant environmental aspects and impacts;
(e) a description of the actions implemented and planned to improve environmental performance, achieve the objectives and targets and ensure compliance with legal requirements related to the environment.
Where available, reference should be made to the relevant best environmental management practices presented in the sectoral reference documents as referred to in Article 46;
(f) a summary of the data available on the environmental performance of the organisation with respect to its significant environmental aspects.
Reporting shall be on both the core environmental performance indicators and the specific environmental performance indicators as set out in Section C. Where environmental objectives and targets exist, the respective data shall be reported;
(g) a reference to the main legal provisions to be taken into account by the organisation to ensure compliance with legal requirements related to the environment and a statement regarding legal compliance;
(h) a confirmation regarding the requirements of Art. 25 para. 8 and the name and accreditation or licence number of the environmental verifier and the date of validation. The declaration as referred to in Annex VII signed by the environmental verifier may be used instead.
The updated environmental statement shall contain at least the elements and shall meet the minimum requirements as set out in points (e) to (h).
Organisations may decide to integrate in their environmental statement additional factual information related to the activities, products and services of the organisation or to their compliance with specific requirements. All information contained in the environmental statement shall be validated by the environmental verifier.
The environmental statement may be integrated in other reporting documents of the organisation (e.g. management, sustainability or corporate social responsibility reports). When integrated in such reporting documents a clear distinction shall be made between validated and non-validated information. The environmental statement shall be clearly identified (for example by using the EMAS logo) and the document shall include a short explanation of the validation process in the context of EMAS.
Both, in the environmental statement and the updated environmental statement, organisations shall report on their significant direct and indirect environmental aspects by using the core environmental performance indicators and the specific environmental performance indicators as set out below. In the event that no quantitative data are available, organisations shall report qualitative information as described in point 4.
The reporting shall provide data on actual input and output. If disclosure would adversely affect the confidentiality of commercial or industrial information of the organisation where such confidentiality is provided for by national or Community law to protect a legitimate economic interest, the organisation may be permitted to index this information in its reporting, e.g. by establishing a baseline year (with the index number 100) from which the development of the actual input/output would appear.
(a) give an accurate appraisal of the organisation's environmental performance;
(b) be readily understood and unambiguous;
(c) allow for a year on year comparison in order to assess whether the organisation's environmental performance has improved; to enable this comparison, the reporting shall cover at least 3 years of activity, provided the data are available.;
(d) allow for comparison with sector, national or regional benchmarks as appropriate;
(e) allow for comparison with regulatory requirements as appropriate.
To support this, the organisation shall briefly define the scope (including the organisational and material boundaries, applicability and calculation methodology) covered by each of the indicator.
(a) Core indicators focus on performance in the following key environmental areas:
(v) Land use with regard to biodiversity; and
Reporting on core environmental performance indicators is an obligation. However, an organisation may evaluate the relevance of those indicators within the context of its significant environmental aspects and impacts. Where an organisation concludes that one or more core indicators are not relevant to its significant environmental aspects and impacts, it may not report on those core indicators. In that case, the organisation shall include in the environmental statement a clear and reasoned explanation for not doing so.
(b) Each core indicator is composed of:
(i) a figure A indicating the total annual input/output in the given area;
(ii) a figure B indicating an annual reference value representing the activity of the organisation; and
(iii) a figure R indicating the ratio A/B;
Each organisation shall report on all 3 elements for each indicator.
(c) The indication of the total annual input/output in the given area, figure A, shall be reported as follows:
- the «total direct energy consumption», corresponding to the total annual amount of energy consumed by the organisation,
- the «total renewable energy consumption», corresponding to the total annual amount of energy consumed by the organisation that was generated from renewable energy sources,
- the «total renewable energy generation», corresponding to the total annual amount of energy generated by the organisation from renewable energy sources.
This last element shall be reported only if the total energy generated by the organisation from renewable energy sources significantly exceeds the total renewable energy consumed by the organisation, or if the renewable energy generated by the organisation was not consumed by the organisation.
If different types of energy are consumed or, in case of renewable energy, generated (such as electricity, heat, fuels or others) their annual consumption or production shall be reported separately as appropriate.
Energy should preferably be expressed in kWh, MWh, GJ or other metrics commonly used to report the type of energy consumed or generated.
- the «annual mass-flow of key materials used» (excluding energy carriers and water), preferably expressed in units of weight (e.g. kilograms or tonnes) or volume (e.g. m3) or other metrics commonly used in the sector.
When different types of materials are used, their annual mas-flow should be reported separately as appropriate.
- the «total annual generation of waste», broken down by type, preferably expressed in units of weight (e.g. kilograms or tonnes) or volume (e.g. m3), or in other metrics commonly used in the sector,
- the «total annual generation of hazardous waste» preferably expressed in units of weight (e.g. kilograms or tonnes) or m3 or in other metric commonly used in the sector,
(v) on Land-use with regard to biodiversity
- the forms of land use with regard to biodiversity expressed in units of area (e.g. m2 or ha):
- total use of land
- total sealed area
- total nature-oriented area on site
- total nature-oriented area off site
A «nature-oriented area» is an area dedicated primarily to nature preservation or restoration. Nature-oriented areas can be located on-site and include roof, façade , water drainages or others elements that have been designed, adapted or are managed in order to promote biodiversity. Nature-oriented areas can also be located outside the organisation site provided that the area is owned or managed by the organisation and is primarily dedicated to promoting biodiversity. Co-managed areas dedicated to promoting biodiversity can also be described, provided that the scope of co-management is clearly outlined.
A «sealed area» means any area where the original soil has been covered (such as roads) making it impermeable. This non-permeability can create environmental impacts.
- the «total annual emission of greenhouse gases», including at least emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, NF3 and SF6, expressed in tonnes of CO2 equivalent,
The organisation should consider reporting its greenhouse gas emissions according to an established methodology, such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
- the «total annual air emission», including at least emissions of SO2, NOx and PM, expressed in kilograms or tonnes,
(d) The indication of the annual reference value representing the activity of the organisation, figure B, shall be selected and reported based on the following requirements:
(ii) be a figure that best represents the organisation's overall annual activity;
(iii) allow a correct description of the environmental performance of the organisation, taking into account organisation specificities and activities;
(iv) be a common reference value for the sector the organisation is working in, such as the following examples:
- total annual physical output
- total number of employees
- total overnights
- total number of inhabitants in an area (in the case of public administration)
- tonnes of waste processed (for organisations active in the waste management sector)
- total energy produced (for organisations active in the energy production sector)
(v) ensure the comparability of the reported indicators over time. Once defined, Figure B shall be used in upcoming environmental statements.
A change of Figure B shall be explained in the environmental statement. In case of a change of Figure B, the organisation shall ensure the figure can be compared over at least 3 years by recalculating the indicators for the previous years according to the newly defined Figure B.
Each organisation shall also report annually on its performance relating to the significant direct and indirect environmental aspects and impacts that are related to its core business activities, that are measurable and verifiable, and that are not covered already by the core indicators.
Reporting on those indicators shall be done in accordance with the requirements set in the introduction to this section.
Where available, the organisation shall take account of sectoral reference documents as referred to in Article 46 to facilitate the identification of relevant sector specific indicators.
In the event that no quantitative data is available to report on significant direct or indirect environmental aspects, organisations shall report their performance on the basis of qualitative information.
Organisations registering under EMAS may wish to produce one corporate environmental statement, covering a number of different geographic locations.
As the intention of EMAS is to ensure local accountability, organisations shall ensure that the significant environmental impacts of each site are clearly identified and reported within the corporate environmental statement.
The organisation shall ensure that it is able to demonstrate to the environmental verifier that anybody interested in the organisation's environmental performance can easily and freely obtain access to the information required under section B and C. To provide for such transparency the environmental statement should preferably be publicly available on the website of the organisation.
The organisation shall ensure that this information on an individual site or organisation is published in (one of) the official language(s) of the Member State or third country in which the site or the organisation is located.
In addition, in the case of a corporate environmental statement, the organisation shall ensure that (for the registration purposes) this information is available in (one of) the official language(s) of the Member State in which the organisation is registered or in (one of) the official language(s) of the Union agreed with the Competent Body responsible for the registration.
The environmental statement may also be made available in additional languages provided that the content of the translated document is consistent with the content of the original environmental statement validated by the environmental verifier and that it clearly states that is a translation of the validated document.
1. The logo may be used in any of the 24 languages provided the following wording is used:
2. The logo shall be used either:
- in three colours (Pantone No 355 Green; Pantone No 109 Yellow; Pantone No 286 Blue),
- in black,
- in white, or,
- in a grey scale,
INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION (INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED WHEN APPLICABLE)
ENVIRONMENTAL VERIFIER'S DECLARATION ON VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION ACTIVITIES
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