Development of the EMAS Sectoral Reference Documents on Best Environmental Management Practice. Learning from frontrunners. Promoting best practice
This report aims to describe how the EMAS Sectoral Reference Documents on best environmental management practise are
developed. Firstly, the EMAS regulation and the legal background of the documents are introduced. Afterwards, the main
elements included in such documents (best environmental management practices, environmental performance indicators and
benchmarks of excellence) are described and some examples are provided. The outputs of the process, namely the Sectoral
Reference Documents and the JRC Scientific and Policy Reports on best environmental management practice are then outlined,
together with the role played in developing the documents by the different actors involved: JRC/IPTS, the Technical Working
Group and the EMAS Committee. An in-depth presentation of the methodology used, introducing the frontrunner approach and
how information is gathered and drafted, allows the reader to have a complete picture of the process for developing the EMAS
Sectoral Reference Documents. Finally, the report presents the lessons learnt so far, the dissemination activities carried out and
the list of reports already available.
SCHOENBERGER Harald;
CANFORA Paolo;
DRI Marco;
GALVEZ MARTOS Jose Luis;
STYLES David;
ANTONOPOULOS Ioannis;
2014-04-01
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC84966
978-92-79-34532-6,
1831-9424,
EUR 26291,
OP LF-NA-26291-EN-N,
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=7141,
http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities/emas/documents/DevelopmentSRD.pdf,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC84966,
10.2791/43526,
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