Site and Registry Recommendation

Dear Reader,
The Romanian Environmental Partnership Foundation, through its Eco Business Programme is bringing to your attention a new webpage: www.iso14001.ro The intention of the webpage is to establish a national inventory (list) of those Romanian companies which already made efforts in the field of environmental management.

You should visit the webpage if:
• Your company is already an ISO 14001 certified company, and you would like to share this fact with others.
• Your company is not certified yet, but you are in the process of implementing an environmental management system, and you are interested on the list of certified companies.
• Your company is active in the field of environmental consulting
• Your company is a certifying company.
• You are an environmental friendly company.

Please share with us your suggestions regarding this webpage! Thank you!

The new website was developed under the framework of the project called:
"Name and Fame for the First Green Steps"

This new initiative to launch a nationwide registry of ISO 14001 certified and EMAS registered companies in Romania is coming from the non-governmental sector. It's goal is to list those small and big companies which have the best environmental attitude. The Name and Fame for the First Green Steps project is implemented by the Romanian Environmental Partnership Foundation, Eco Business Programme in partnership with KÖVET INEM Hungary, through an NGO Twinning grant funded by DG Environment.

Project budget: 22.635 Euro, EU contribution: 19.360 Euro
Timing: 15th of January - 15th of December 2005

The importance of such a website can be understood easily when we use the ISO 14001 Speedometer.
The ISO 14001 Speedometer - A tool to better assess country ranking in ISO 14001 certifications, used by INEM (www.inem.org) The number of certifications to the international environmental management standard ISO 14001 is often used as an indicator of a country's development in the use of voluntary environmental agreements, and is understood as a sort of country-level environmental performance indicator.

Molnár Judith
Manager program Eco Business