The environmental management system (AROUND) is the part of a management system of an organization (enterprise, authority, etc.), in which the competencies, behaviors, expirations and defaults for the conversion of the operational environmental policy of the organization are structured fixed.

The environmental management system is usually developed after the individual needs of the organization. Assistance with the structure defaults can give, the most well-known are the environmental management standard to ISO 14001 or the EMAS regulation. These defaults e.g. place minimum requirements against the environmental management system, like the written definition of an operational environmental policy - which must contain the observance of requirements of the environment law - and from environmental goals, the definition of responsibilities for environmentalrelevant tasks, the default of expirations for environmentalrelevant activities, etc.

Many organizations, which developed their environmental management system according to the defaults of the ISO 14001 and/or the EMAS regulation, let it certify AROUND of external environmental consultants (ISO 14001) and/or validate (EMAS), in order to increase the reliability AROUND in the public and at customers.

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Environmental management

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