Award Ceremony of the Eco Champion Contest 2019 entitled  ' Combat Climate Change - Reducing European Parliament’s Carbon Footprint '

EMAS seminar : ' Delivering on Sustainable Development Goals - What the EU Institutions are doing '

EMAS seminar ' Delivering on Sustainable Development Goals - What the EU Institutions are doing '

EMAS signature - New Environmental Policy of the European Parliament.

EPRS - 10th anniversary of EMAS

The European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and Environmental Policy signing ceremony

Mobility Week: third edition of the Sustainable2Wheels event, organised by ETRA on Agora in Brussels

Mobility week stand Directorate Resources and EMAS team of DG PRES

DG PRES stand in Green Week event

Klaus WELLE - Secretary General and Judith MERKIES

Handing over of a petition against the use of plastic bottles in the EP

Klaus WELLE - Secretary General, Constantin STRATIGAKIS, on the right

EMAS - Green weeks 2012 presentation

Official documents sorting cart

Recharge campaign promoting the collection and recycling of used batteries (bebat)

Mobility Week in front of the European Parliament in Brussels

Water fountain Illustration

Inauguration of Mobility Point of the European Parliament

Buzek ENVI COMMITTEE

Klaus Welle, Secretaire General du Parlement

Reunion Forum Environnement EMAS

EMAS PROGRAM - Painter at work inside EP in Strasbourg

The European Parliament recognizes its responsibility for making a positive contribution to sustainable development as a long-term goal. Parliament fulfils this responsibility not only in its political and legislative role, but also in the way it operates on a day-to-day basis. To this aim, since 2007, the Parliament's administration has been certified under the premium third-party verified EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) standard, with the aim of continually improving its environmental results in accordance with the EMAS Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 and ISO 14001:2015 standard. From energy consumption to carbon emissions, mobility, water and waste, the European Parliament has established best practices to reduce its environmental impact and contribute to a more sustainable future.

The Parliament's EMAS achievements in 2019

Each of us produces almost 180 kg of packaging waste in a year. This is 20 % more than a decade ago. 40 % of all the plastics and 50 % of all the paper used in the EU goes into packaging. This emits more CO2 than an average-sized EU country. On 30 November 2022, the Commission proposed to revise the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. This review contributes to reaching the objective of the European Green Deal and the new circular economy action plan to ensure that “all packaging on the EU market is reusable or recyclable in an economically viable way by 2030”. Restrictions: ©The material may not be edited and must be shown entirely.

6 facts about packaging waste

Interview with Julian PRIESTLEY, EP Secretary General 1997 - 2007 on the EP Administration - EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme)

The story of the EP by its Presidents: Julian PRIESTLEY, EP Secretary General 1997 - 2007 - 6. EP Administration: EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme)

This Infoclip illustrates: recyclable paper, bin for recyclable paper, EP cleaning staf,, people putting in different types of waste in thrash can, paper waste container handling of plastic waste, handling of used batteries, compacting cardboard waste

Infoclip: Reducing environmental impact at the EP - waste collection and sorting

Signing ceremony of the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and Environmental Policy in the presence of Martin SCHULZ, EP President, in the EP in Brussels. Statements by Giovanni LA VIA (EPP, IT), ENVI Chairman, and Martin SCHULZ, EP President.&nbsp;

Signing ceremony of the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) and Environmental Policy by of Martin SCHULZ, EP President and Klaus WELLE, EP  Secretary General

This infoclip illustrates the different cleaning-up operations carried out in the building of the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels, as the cleaning of the hemicycle, the offices, the canteen or the repainting of walls, and the general maintenance of the building as well.

Infoclip: EMAS

Jerzey BUZEK, EP President and Isabelle DURANT (Greens/EFA, BE) make a speech on the framework of the Renewal of the European Parliament's Environmental Policy, in the European Parliament in Brussels. Signing ceremony.

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