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News Release from: NEC Electronics (Europe)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 October 2005
Audit confirms environmental compliance
NEC Electronics Europe has successfully implemented its environmental management system in its complete sales and marketing organisation across Europe.
NEC Electronics Europe has successfully implemented its environmental management system for the complete sales and marketing organisation across Europe including the European Logistic Centre in Neuss and the European Technology Centre in Dusseldorf TUV Industries Service audited the newly established environmental management system and confirmed compliance with the ISO14001:2004 standard
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The certification audit was a combined audit to verify the conformance to quality (ISO9001:2000) as well as environmental (ISO14001:2004) management system standards.
Since 1998 NEC Electronics Europe has maintained a quality management system (QMS) certified in accordance with the quality management standard ISO9001.
When starting activities to implement the requirements for environmental management system (EMS) standards, NEC Electronics Europe strived to extend the existing QMS to an integrated management system (IMS) covering apart from the standard requirements of ISO9001 also the requirements of ISO14001:2004.
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As a result of the combined certification audit, TUV confirmed all requirements of ISO14001:2004 standard were completely implemented into NEC Electronics Europe's new integrated management system (IMS).
Within the scope of an EMS the ISO14001:2004 standard requires establishing, implementing and maintaining a procedure to identify legal and other local, national as well as European requirements, which are applicable to environmental aspects.
In co-operation with an external expert for environmental law NEC Electronics Europe created a so called environmental law register to summarise all relevant regulations to be observed and followed by the company.
This law register is communicated across concerned levels within the organisation to ensure all obligations are individually assigned and fulfilled.
As part of the new IMS NEC Electronics Europe has created and communicated a detailed action plan for all its members to give full priority to environmental protection including: minimising the impact on the environment in all stages of product development, procurement, transportation and disposal; protecting the environment and nature by using sustainable materials for daily work; and minimising the impact on the environment due to recycling and disposal of incidental waste in an ecological way.
With the implementation of the environmental system NEC Electronics Europe has made a major step forward in direction of its extended policy to ensure employee awareness and to increase their sensitivity towards the environment and the preservation of non renewable resources in design, in the realisation of products, solutions and services and in every company activity.
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