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EMAS - Apply for registration and admission

EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) is a joint European Community system for environmental management and environmental auditing. This instrument is designed to help organisations improve their environmental performance. Since 2001, the structure of an environmental management system (EMS) and the processes have also been in line with ISO 14001 for EMAS.

EMAS is not only open to the manufacturing industry. It is also open to, for example

Municipalities and other public administrations
church organisations
Banks
Wholesale and retail companies
Schools and universities
Hotels and restaurants

The aims of EMAS are

to strengthen environmental awareness within the organisation
to make environmental protection part of the organisation's policy and
to continuously improve environmental performance.

EMAS includes, among other things

Environmental audits: Identification of significant environmental impacts
Audits: regular, systematic and objective evaluation of the system and the environmental performance achieved
Informing the public about the organisation's efforts in the area of environmental protection

Responsible department

the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) responsible for your organisation

Details

Prerequisite

Implementation of an environmental audit by the organisation
Establishment of an environmental management system
Publication of an environmental statement

Procedure

Your organisation must first carry out an environmental audit. This serves to determine what impact your organisation has on the environment. As a result of the environmental audit, your organisation must submit an environmental statement.

Independent environmental verifiers authorised by the German Accreditation and Licensing Body for Environmental Verifiers (DAU) check the environmental statement.

If the requirements of the EMAS Regulation are met, the verifier validates the environmental statementädeclaration and declare it valid.

After validation, you must apply for entry in the EMAS register at the chamber responsible for your organisation.

The chamber will check your documents. It will inform the lower environmental protection authority of the planned registration. The authority has four weeks to comment on the registration.

If the lower environmental protection authority does not give the chamber any negative feedback, the chamber will assign your organisation a registration number.

After registration, you are authorised to use the EMAS logo for advertising purposes for the duration of the registration. The validity period is three or four years.

Deadlines

Have yourself entered in the EMAS register as soon as the EMAS validation has been completed.
As soon as the validated, i.e. validated environmental statement is available, registration can be applied for. The responsible environmental authorities (district offices) will be consulted prior to entry in the EMAS register.

Required documents

completed application form
Description of the business areas that are to receive the EMAS logo
the validated environmental statement

Costs

are based on

the cost rates of the environmental verifier and
the fee rates of the competent chambers responsible for entry in the EMAS register

Processing time

The examination by the chamber takes an average of six to eight weeks.

Miscellaneous

Further in-depth information on the above points and funding databases can be found on the EMAS website .

Legal basis

Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1221/2009 (EMAS III)
Gesetz zur Ausführung der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1221/2009 - Umweltauditgesetz (UAG)

Release note

machine generated, based on the German release by: Umweltministerium Baden-Württemberg, 03.07.2024