European Environmental Management System (EMAS)
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European Environmental Management System (EMAS)
All printing facilities have been validated
The EU Eco-Audit System EMAS has also been established in Germany since 1995. This involves the voluntary supervision of the operational measures taken to protect the environment as required by environmentally relevant demands upon production locations. The facilities validated according to EMAS publish an environmental program every three years in which they set forth the areas in which they intend to improve their performance. The implementation of these programs is monitored by independent experts. The first printing facility in Europe to be validated, in November 1995, was the Druckzentrum Ahrensburg. The registration bears the number DE-S-150-00001. Our printing facilities in Spandau and Essen-Kettwig (1997) have also been validated.
The EMAS System
- Environmental Policy: Determination of and adherance to basic principles according to which the manufacture of the group's products shall be optimized according to ecological demands.
- Effects on the environment: Gathering all inputs relevant for the environment (raw materials, energy, water) and outputs (products, waste, emissions) in order to create a balance sheet and to recognize potentials for improvement.
- Ecological operations audit: External supervision of environmental management and the achievement of objectives.
- Environmental program: Determination of new goals and measures, including a time schedule, until the next audit.
- Environmental Statement: Publication of the development and implementation of items 1 through 4 (generally, this takes place every three years).
declaration under guidance for the
Ahrensburg printing facility.
The Environmental Statements of the validated Axel Springer AG printing facilities may be ordered by email from nachhaltigkeit@axelspringer.de.
