Legal Requirements

Organisations registering to EMAS must be able to demonstrate that they have identified and know the implications to the organisation of all relevant environmental legislation and that their system is capable of meeting these on an ongoing basis. At the time of registration, the environmental regulators are consulted to make sure that they are satisfied with the organisation in this regard. Guidance has been agreed with the regulators to ensure a consistent approach, and can be downloaded from the Guidance section of this web site.

Further guidance to help SMEs comply with environmental legislation is available from ECAP -

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/sme/programme/programme_en.htm