eco-management and auditing scheme

A Community scheme allowing voluntary participation by companies performing industrial activities, established for the evaluation and improvement of the environmental performance of industrial activities and the provision of the relevant information to the public. The objective of the scheme is to promote continuous improvements in the environmental performance of industrial activities by:(a) the establishment and implementation of environmental policies, programmes and management systems by companies, in relation to their sites;(b) the systematic, objective and periodic evaluation of the performance of such elements;(c) the provision of information of environmental performance to the public.