List of all projects Indicators of EMS efficiency according to NACE
Coordinator: Hřebíček Jiří
Duration: 2007–2010
Contracting authority: Czech Ministry of Environment
Design of new indicators for efficiency monitoring of environmental management systems, as well as system reporting, assessing the relations among the environment, economy and society.
Project SP/4i2/26/07, entitled as "Design of new indicators for a continuous efficiency monitoring of environmental management systems according to NACE (Classification of Economic Activities), as well as corresponding environmental reporting systems, assessing the relations among the environment, economy and society" will take up results of the previous project Analysis and Design of Environmental Data Models and External Czech Environmental Information System Interfaces Compatible with the EU, which led to a successful creation of information system for environmental reporting of the Czech Republic. Furthermore, the project SP/4i2/26/07 will take up results of another previous project Proposal of Communication Framework with International Environmental Information Systems. The project SP/4i2/26/07 will utilize the results of the 5th and 6th EU's Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (FP5 and FP6) and will take into account the main research trends announced within the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for sustainable development and its growth, concerning the creation of infrastructure for the European Information Space.
This project aims to research how the environment can be monitored continuously and exactly with respect to NACE, to find relations between the environment, economy and society and to transform these relations into respective indicators for environmental ("corporate") reporting and EMAS annual reports. This can be achieved by meeting the following objectives:
- Analysis of important branches of economic activity in the Czech Republic will be performed, and the current state of environment development will be identified, as well as the relations between environment, economy and society with respect to the established EMS and EMAS systems. Based on the assessment of these analyses, the determined relations will be transformed into appropriate indicators for environmental reporting and EMAS annual reports for selected branches of economic activity.
- In cooperation with the sponsor, Ministry of Environment Methodical Guidelines will be created to identify standardized indicators for environmental reporting and EMAS annual reports. The Guidelines will enable the assessment of companies involved in specific branches and facilitate their assessment from the point of view of sustainable development. The Guidelines will identify main environmental aspects which are common to virtually all companies involved in a specific branch (energy and water consumption, waste production etc.) and relevant indicators.
- A prototype of "open source" software will be created, i.e. a web information system based on modern ICT to promote the calculation of standardized indicators system both for environmental reporting and for EMAS annual reports. This system will be freely available for users (companies), and for users with established EMS or EMAS systems.
Other important information:
- Expert council: prof. RNDr. Jiří Hřebíček, CSc., doc. Ing. Iva Ritschelová, CSc., doc. RNDr. Ladislav Dušek, Dr.,RNDr. Danka Haruštiaková (Némethová), Ph.D., RNDr. Miroslav Kubásek, Ph.D., RNDr. Jaroslav Ráček, Ph.D., Mgr. Ing. Jana Soukopová, Ph.D., JUDr. Eva Tošovská, CSc., Ing. Mgr. Eva Kutová, Ing. Bohumil Beneš, Ing. Petr Brabec, Lenka Chvátalová, Ing. Eva Krumplová, RNDr. Miroslav Petráš, Ing. František Piliar, Ing. Jiří Soukop, Jiří Škrobák, Jana Kurfürstová
- Brief overview of results: you can find more detailed information on the website of the project
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