What are the benefits of EMAS?
EMAS helps organisations to:
- Minimise pollution, creating a cleaner and healthier environment;
- Operate more efficiently, by minimising energy and water usage, saving natural resources and reducing waste;
- Minimise their service delivery costs, therefore improving profitability and enhancing competitiveness;
- Openly report their environmental improvements in an environmental statement, ensuring that the general public are informed of their environmental achievements
- Increase staff awareness into environmental issues.
- Protection of the environment.
In the UK, EMAS has been extended to include local authorities (LA-EMAS), to help them with their work on Local Agenda 21, and to sites in the distribution sector. This allows Bradford Council to receive all benefits highlighted above.
Regulation
The EMAS regulation provides the legal framework for implementation of the Scheme in EU Member States and sets out the requirements for companies wishing to participate. The full text of the regulation can be download via the links below.
