EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RECYCLING GREEN AUDIT ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has embarked on a long-term environmental management scheme that will formally commit it to recycling as many materials as it can. The parliament's president Josep Borrell and secretary general Julian Priestley have signed an 'environmental statement' making the EP to follow the European Union (EU)-approved Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). This means the parliament's environmental management will be externally assessed, with formal registration this coming December. A key element, said a parliament note, was ...
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