Pilot Study on Environmental Management Systems in the

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MB Military Sector

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ID Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society

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CONTENTS

Management Summary 3

Foreword 5

Introduction — The Role of the Environment and EMS in Peacetime Defence Organisations 9

Environmental management as a help, not a hindrance 9

Annex A — EMS in the Public and Military Sectors 11

Annex B — Goal of an Environmental Management Programme 15

Chapter One — Overview an EMS in the Military Sector 18

Getting started 18

Basic approach 18

Leadership roles for governments and military organisations 22

Annex 1A — NATO Environmental Reports and Other Work 25

Annex 1B — Experience with the EMS in the Danish Defence, 1993 – 1999 27

Chapter Two — Policy 29

Reviewing existing policies and practices 29

Developing an environmental policy statement 31

Communicating the policy to all interested parties 32

Annex 2A — Environmental Aspects 33

Annex 2B — Methods of Prioritising Environmental Impacts (Text provided by the Czech Republic)

35

Annex 2C — The Environmental Policy Statement of the Danish Ministry of Defence 37

Annex 2D — The Environmental Policy Statement of the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence

(1996) 38

Annex 2E — The Environmental Policy Statement of the Swedish Ministry of Defence 39

Chapter Three — Planning 40

Baselines 40

Objectives and targets 40

Gap analysis 41

Action plans 41

Annex 3A — Developing Performance Measures (USA) 43

Annex 3B — Developing Performance Measures (Sweden) 47

Annex 3C — Developing Performance Measures (NL) 50

Annex 3D — Developing Objectives and Targets (Sweden) 60

Annex 3E — Summary of Environmental Management in the Danish Defence 1999 (Denmark) 62

Annex 3F — A Scoring System to Prioritise Significant Environmental Aspects (Denmark) 67

Chapter Four — Implementation 75

Roles, responsibilities and authorities 75

Training and awareness 75

Communication 77

Annex 4A — Training in the Military Sector 82

Annex 4B — Determining Training Needs 84

Annex 4C — Procedures for Environmental Communication 85

Chapter Five — Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting 89

Monitoring 89

Evaluating 89

Reporting 91

Annex 5A — Selected Bibliography 93

Annex 5B — Types of Audits 94

Annex 5C — Management Reviews 95

Annex 5D — Reporting 98

Chapter Six — Registration 100

Initial assessment 100

Main assessment 100

The Environmental Statement 101

Glossary 103

Reference documents 109

World Wide Web Sites 112