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Environmental Management Systems Ordinance.

Country
Type of law
Regulation
Source


Abstract
The present Ordinance implements the Environment Management Act (BGBl. I No. 96/2001). The aim of the Ordinance is to set up national registers for organizations and the establishment of criteria for inclusion in these registers. Article 2 rules that waste management companies are organizations that collect,transport , sort, store, use or treat otherwise and which stipulate an agreement with waste management associations. The text consists of 6 articles as follows: Purpose (1); Definition of terms (2); Registration prerequisites (3); General requirements (4); Compensation (5); Running of national registers (6); Gender issue (7); Entry into force (8).
Long title of text
Ordinance by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Environment and Water Resources on the establishment of supplementary national registers for organizations using environmental management systems similar to EMAS.
Date of text
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Bundesgesetzblatt für die Republik Österreich, Part II, No. 152, 4 May 2012, 4 pp.
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
Verordnung des Bundesministers für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft zur Errichtung weiterer nationaler Register für Organisationen, die zu EMAS gleichwertige Umweltmanagementsysteme anwenden (UMG Register VO).
Implements