During the last decades have taken place several facts, like environmental accidents, problems of health, deterioration of the biospheres…that has caused an increase of social conscience regarding the conservation of the environment, and in consequence an increase in the related legislation. There is a wide quantity of regulation in the matter. We can find some standards of obligatory implementation and others of voluntary implementation that have the recommendations character. Legislation LevelsAccording to their application field we can classify the environment standards in five different levels.
The Environment of the European Community Program of ActionIt define a group of actions to develop for the Community relate with the environmental protection. They define the big action lines without going into concrete details. The current "Sixth Program of Environmental Action of the European Community in environment material" (2001 - 2010) establish the goals and priorities of the environmental politics that will be part of the strategy of the European Community in favour of the sustainable development settles down. Political instrumentsThe political instruments for the creation of an appropriate economic and juridical mark for the environment are the following ones:
Marks oriented for productsThere are obligatory and voluntary marks. The main obligatory marks are the following ones: Hazardous substances CE Mark Mark of the adhesion to a Waste System Electric-electronic devices Label of energy efficiency in appliances Regarding the voluntary marks, the ISO standard regulates the ecologic labels that are well-known. There are three categories of labels:
Environmental SystemsSome companies have also their own marked or recognition systems.
UNE 150301 Environmental System for the design process and development of products (Ecodesing)Spanish standard for the Design and development Process of the products (Ecodesing). It target is to provide to the organizations the elements for having an effective system to design and develop products and services. It allows also to the organizations to incorporate a systematic identification, control and continuous improvement of the environmental aspects, associated to the products or services designed. It is in perfect connection with other Environmental Systems of the companies. |
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