The project "Environmental Audit" has been funded with the support from
the 'Europe for citizens' Programme of the European Commission.

We would also like to thank for the generous financial support of
Deutscher Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtung.

By publishing a brochure on environmental management systems we endeavour to reach all those who would like to improve the performance of their work and activities, and not only by improving the quality of their work and the economy of production, but also by minimising the environmental consequences, too. It's not a guide that will show you the one correct way forward. Instead, it is an introduction to the complex world of environmental management with its language, legislative framework, PDCA cycles and so on. We aim in particular to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises from different regions of Europe to implement some kind of environmental management system: to become greener, safer, and indeed to profit from that in terms of economy, publicity, employees' satisfaction or even just the feel good factor which comes from doing something good for the environment.

We hope you enjoy reading our brochure and finish it feeling enriched!

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English	Albanian	Czech	German	Macedonian

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According to their personal action plans, participants organised the following actions in their home countries:

Albania

On 25 January 2011 we have organized an informative meeting for EMS, ISO 14001, EMAS, ecompaping with the student of environment biology at the Faculty of Natural Science, and they were interested to know more for that. Approximately 15 students.

On 17 February 2011 an electronic publication at an environment newspaper Mjedisi Sot, with a general information of EMS and of what we have done till that moment. Link: http://www.mjedisisot.info/index.asp?idd=11288&id=145&lloji=dok.

On 17 February 2011 an electronic publication at EDEN web page. Link: http://www.eden-al.org/index.php?id=229.

On 17 February 2011 we have sent informative emails about EMS, ISO 14001, eco mapping to different companies, organizations. approximately we have found 60 emails contacts

Czech Republic

On November 16th 2010 a workshop on "Ecomapping and basics of Environmental Management Systems", was organized by Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) in Ecological Centre Toulcův Dvůr in Prague. The workshop was aimed to Czech environmental NGOs and its main goal was to raise awareness on the EMS and the Ecomapping method as a new modern approach how to recognize significant environmental aspects of the organisation.  The afternoon workshop consisted of theoretical and practical part – presentation of EMS and ecomapping selected part of Toulcův Dvůr ecocentre.

In March 2011, after the Evaluation Meeting, the YEE office team did the ecomapping of the office and on its bases established an action plan how to improve environmental performance of the office. The aim of this activity was not only to train the ecomapping method, but also benefit from the knowledge we got during the training course and the evaluaiton meeting in our everyday life.

In May 2011 we do the ecomapping of the festival area in Hradec Kralove.

Germany

On February 16th 2011 an information event on "Environmental Management Systems", was jointly organized by Youth and Environment Europe (YEE), Peter Fischer Managementberatung and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Berlin (IHK Berlin). Five speakers presented the input and benefits of Environmental Management Systems. Approximately 30 participants from 24 companies including renowned ones such as Vattenfall, Linde AG and REMONDIS GmbH & Co KG attended the event in Berlin.

Macedonia

In May 2011 the Ecomapping of one of the contacted companies is planned to be done.