Abstrakt:
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) are important voluntary tools used by
the business sphere and other organisations in the world, as well as in the Czech
Republic, for the management of the impacts of their activities, products and
services on the environment. The article presents EMS as a tool for the
management of the environmental aspects and impacts of organisations, depicts
the development of their implementation into the practice deployed by
organisations around the world and in the Czech Republic in the last 15 years and
highlights the systems’ benefits for the society and for the organisations
themselves.