Environmental Management Systems – European Perspective

Abstract

The following article is devoted to determine what the main tendencies are concerning the Environmental Management Systems' certification in the accordance with ISO 14001 and EMAS' registrations in the years 1999-2013 from a different countries' perspective. Giving examples of representative quantitative data, the author presents dynamics of the growth of environmental management systems and also absolute positional qualifications (describing numbers of certificates and registrations), as well as relative qualifications (presenting numbers of certificates and registrations per million residents) in various European countries. The quantitative analyses that have been conducted show a general increasing tendency regarding the number of certificates and registrations. Looking from a perspective of different European countries, Italy and Spain have gained highest evaluation concerning the certification of environmental management systems according ISO 14001 and registration in EMAS. (Engl)