Implementation of environmental management systems in the Czech Republic

Abstract

The paper deals with the present situation of the implementation of environmental management systems in the Czech republic. It focuses on the main reasons of EMS implementation in companies, on the costs connected with implementation as well as on the actual economic effects of environmental management systems. The objective of this paper is to point out the present standard of environmental costs tracking in those of Czech companies who have implemented environmental management systems and to stress the importance of such information for company management. The paper includes some of the results acquired from the grant-subsidized project of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic "Environmental Costs Information for Environmental Management" (No. 402/02/0092).