New EMAS Newsletter on Energy Efficiency

In this first issue of 2007, the European Commission shows that, whether as individual companies or in partnership with others, significant energy savings are achievable.

All over Europe, EMAS clubs and networks are growing and gaining more and more importance for EMAS-registered organisations. These successful initiatives promote and support the cooperation between organisations, local institutions and authorities. They are being developed in order to encourage enterprises to direct their economic activity towards more sustainable development by offering a ‘lighter’ and improved documentary process. The third edition of the EMAS Regulation will encourage a cluster approach and suggests the potential for reduced costs because of the proposed simplifications in bureaucracy.

This issue of the EMAS Newsletter introduces different approaches by EMAS clubs and networks in Europe to winning more, in-depth specialist knowledge and to the exchange of experiences in order to maintain and further improve individual environmental management systems.