Environmental communication of companies with external interested parties within the framework of EMS

Abstract

An important part of environmental management systems (EMS) is formed by the duty to establish, implement and maintain procedures for environmental communication of the company. In several recent years, especially environmental communication with external interesed parties has become the object of attention. The purpose of the paper is to analyse the present state in the field of external environmental reporting of the Czech companies which have implemented an EMS. The attention focuses, in particular, on how the individual interesed parties are important for the process of establishment of external environmental communication, and on the fact whether the companies are trying to ascertain their information needs. A big room is devoted to the method of publication of environmental information - i.e., the environmental reports. The paper is based on results of the research carried out in the Czech Republic in 2005.