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EMAS register entry
Service Description
EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) is a community system of the European Community for environmental management and environmental auditing. This instrument helps organizations to improve their environmental performance. The introduction of EMAS is not required by law.
EMAS begins with an inventory, the so-called environmental audit, and leads through the establishment of an environmental management system(processes, organization, responsibilities) with documentation to the preparation of an environmental statement.
Finally, an accredited environmental verifier checks the implemented system and the information in the environmental statement.
If this assessment is positive, the company is then registered by the relevant Chamber of Industry and Commerce or Chamber of Crafts. After registration in the EMAS register, your organization may bear the EMAS logo.
The registration is valid for three years, four years for small organizations. It must then be renewed. To retain registration, your organization must submit an updated environmental statement every year.
EMAS (English abbreviation for Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) is an instrument developed by the European Communities for companies and other organizations that want to improve their environmental performance.
Registration issues are regulated by law in Germany via the Environmental Audit Act (UAG). Once a company has implemented an environmental management system, it is then audited by an independent, government-approved environmental verifier. This process is called validation. If all the requirements of the EMAS Regulation are met, the environmental verifier declares the environmental statement to be valid. The organization that has been validated in this way can have itself entered in the EMAS register at the responsible Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) or Chamber of Crafts. The registration is subject to the condition that there is no violation of relevant environmental regulations. The locations at which the organization operates an environmental management system in accordance with the EMAS Regulation are entered in the register.
Process flow
Registration in the EMAS register is the final step in introducing EMAS in your organization:
- Your organization must first carry out an environmental audit. This serves to determine what impact your organization has on the environment. As a result of the environmental audit, your organization must submit an environmental statement.
- Independent environmental verifiers approved by the German Accreditation and Certification Body for Environmental Verifiers (DAU) check the environmental statement and the implementation of the EMAS requirements in the organization.
- After validation, you must apply for entry in the EMAS register at the chamber responsible for your organization (IHK/HWK).
- The chamber will check your documents. It will inform the lower environmental protection authority about the planned registration. The authority has four weeks to comment on the registration.
- If there is no negative response from the lower environmental protection authority, the Chamber will assign your organization a registration number.
- After registration, you are entitled to use the EMAS logo for the duration of the registration. It is valid for three years or four years for small organizations.
- To maintain your registration, you must submit an updated environmental statement to the registration body every year.
Who should I contact?
You can find the EMAS registration bodies responsible for your region in the directory of EMAS registration bodies
The Chamber of Industry and Commerce of East Thuringia Gera and the Chamber of Crafts for East Thuringia Gera are responsible for keeping the register in Thuringia. In the case of registration of an organization with several sites participating in EMAS, the body keeping the register is determined by the organization's headquarters.
Competent authority
You can find the EMAS registration bodies responsible for your region in the directory of EMAS registration bodies
Requirements
- Implementation of an environmental audit by the organization
- Establishment of an environmental management system
- Publication of an environmental statement
- Successful verification of the management system and environmental statement by an accredited verifier
Which documents are required?
- The environmental statement validated by an accredited environmental verifier
What are the fees?
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
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
The EMAS register entry is valid for three years, or up to four years for small organizations.
Period of Validity: 3 - 4 Years
Processing duration
The examination of the initial registration by the chamber takes an average of six to eight weeks, including the required consultation with the authorities.
Processing Time: 6 - 8 Weeks
Legal basis
Applications / forms
Detailed information on how to lodge an objection can be found in the notification of registration or non-registration in the EMAS register.
Appeal
- Forms: EMAS registration form of your registration body
- Online procedure possible: no
- Written form required: yes
- Personal appearance required: no
What else should I know?
Further Information
General information on EMAS can be found on the EMAS information page
Information on the registration process can be found on the EMAS register page
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Technically approved by
Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce
Thuringian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Conservation
Professionally released on
08.10.2020
07.11.2011
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
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