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Benefits of EMAS
EMAS helps companies optimise their production processes, reduce environmental impacts and use resources more efficiently. All kinds of organisations – public and private, large multi-national companies as well as small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with few financial resources and limited in-house EMAS expertise – can enjoy the following benefits:
- Enhanced environmental and financial performance
- high quality environmental management
- resource efficiency and lower costs
- Enhanced risk and opportunity management
- guarantee of full regulatory compliance with environmental legislation
- reduced risk of fines related to environmental legislation
- regulatory relief
- access to deregulation incentives
- access to public contracts
- Enhanced credibility, transparency and reputation
- continuous improvement of environmental performance is verified
- independently validated environmental information
- use of the EMAS logo as a marketing tool
- increased business opportunities in markets where green production processes are important
- better relations with customers, the local and wider community, and regulators
- Enhanced employee empowerment and motivation
- improved workplace environment
- enhanced employee commitment
- greater team-building capacity
Together these points lead to three distinguishing features of EMAS:
Performance – Credibility – Transparency
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