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REMAS Project: Enhancing Environmental Management Performance

Explore the REMAS project by the Environment Agency focusing on environmental management systems and performance in industrial regulation and beyond. Learn about the involvement of various agencies, the importance of EMS engagement, and ways to get involved in improving environmental performance.

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REMAS Project: Enhancing Environmental Management Performance

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  1. remas linking environmental management and performance The remasproject Martyn Cheesbrough Policy Manager Environment Agency, United Kingdom 5th-7th January 2004 www.remas.info

  2. Environment Agency • Land quality • Industrial Pollution • Radioactive substances • Waste management • Water quality • Air pollution • Water resources • Flood defence • Fisheries • Navigation • Recreation

  3. Industrial regulation • 280,000 industrial inspections • 5,500 enforcement actions • 330,000 samples • 4,000 flood warnings • 11,000 staff

  4. remas A pan-European project that examines the value of environmental management systems in the context of regulation

  5. Who is involved? The Environment Agency Scottish Environment Protection Agency Irish Environmental Protection Agency Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment EU LIFE environment European Environment Agency IMPEL

  6. Why bother? • Article 10 of EMAS • Risk based regulation • Confidence in delivery of EMS

  7. Recent evidence

  8. Recent evidence

  9. Project Objectives Prove the link between a ‘robust EMS’ and performance EMS Engagement Environmental performance

  10. Data Collection and Utilisation Compare Environmental Performance with EMS Engagement

  11. Data Collection and Utilisation To Identify the Contribution Made by Individual EMS Elements e1 e2 e3

  12. EMS engagement • EMS 1: Policy • EMS 2: Planning • EMS 3: Implementation and operation • EMS 4: Checking and Corrective action • EMS 5: Management review • EMS 6: Reporting

  13. EMS engagement More stringent EMS delivery

  14. EP methods

  15. Remas 1: e-performance

  16. Remas 1: EP scores

  17. Getting involved • Take part in the survey: European industrial can register now • Views and comments: through the web discussion groups or dissemination materials • Definition of remas criteria

  18. Remas criteria: definition ‘... those elements of an EMS that are key to improving environmental performance and aiding regulation ...’

  19. Remas criteria: development partner experience P1 Q’s P2 Q’s Final remas criteria IMPEL P1 remas criteria Industry Imple-ment Certifiers

  20. remas linking environmental management and performance Links and contacts www.remas.info enquires@remas.info REMAS project, Environment Agency, Block 1 Government Buildings, Burghill Road, Westbury-on-Trym, BS10 6BF mcheesbrough@remas.info or martyn.cheesbrough@environment-agency.gov.uk +44 (0) 7768 276947 www.remas.info

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