EMAS Regulation

An organization that chooses to adopt an environmental management system and to register EMAS demonstrates, in a voluntary and concrete way, its commitment to the environment and environmental sustainability, providing control authorities and citizens with a tool to know, share and communicate their environmental performance. In fact, the European regulation EMAS n. 1221/2009 requires to draw up an Environmental Declaration representative of all aspects of improvement of the environmental performance of the organization, which will then be examined and validated by RINA during the certification phase.

The following EMAS registration allows to obtain a recognition at European level of the achievement of the Organization’s excellence both for environmental management and for the effective and transparent communication plan of its environmental performance to the interested parties. The reduction of environmental impacts, the identification of environmental risks and opportunities to reduce costs related to energy consumption, waste and raw materials management, a systemic approach in defining environmental objectives and identifying the tools to achieve them are some of the advantages that organizations themselves obtain from EMAS Registration, in addition to possible facilitations and simplifications such as,  for example, the extension of the AIA, the reduction of insurance premiums and/or sureties.

Why RINA?

RINA è accreditata da ACCREDIA come verificatore ambientale riconosciuto per svolgere le attività di verifica e convalida secondo quanto previsto dal Regolamento EMAS. Siamo una realtà globale, leader del settore delle certificazioni che basa il proprio lavoro sull’eccellenza e l’esperienza dei propri professionisti. Accreditati da ACCREDIA ed ANAB in tutto il mondo per il rilascio di certificati di conformità alla ISO 14001, per vari settori merceologici e per gli schemi di certificazione a essa collegati, vantiamo una competenza riconosciuta a livello nazionale e internazionale con accreditamenti locali in diverse nazioni (es. INMETRO, RENAR, …).

Certification process

The main stages of the certification and registration process are:

• Completion of the informative questionnaire
• receipt of the technical-economic offer which, once accepted, constitutes the contract for the provision of the service
• carrying out audit activities (on-site and/or off-site) including the verification of the data and information contained in the Environmental Statement and the related release of a final report
• in case of success of the previous phases, the validation of the Environmental Declaration document is evaluated by an independent technical committee
• in case of success of the previous phases, the validation of the Environmental Declaration is carried out and the relative documents are issued
• conducting annual audits for the maintenance of the management system and the annual validation of environmental performance data with the release of reports and the validated updated environmental statement.

Following the issuance of the validated Environmental Declaration, the organization can apply for EMAS Registration to the Ecoaudit Ecolabel Committee-EMAS Italy Section and be included, after a specific investigation, in the list of EMAS registered organizations.

The duration of EMAS Registration is 3 years, renewable at the end of the three-year period.

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