The ISO 14000 Environmental Management Series
The ISO 14000 series of standards provides a comprehensive set of tools available to companies to:
- minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities, and to
- achieve continual improvement of its environmental performance.
The following page gives details on all the standards in the ISO
14000 family and those that are currently under development. For further
information on ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
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ISO 14004: 2004 Environmental Management Systems: General Guidelines on Principles, Systems and Supporting Techniques
ISO 14004:2004 provides guidance on the establishment,
implementation, maintenance and improvement of an environmental
management system and its coordination with other management systems.
The guidelines in ISO 14004:2004 are applicable to any organization,
regardless of its size, type, location or level of maturity. While the
guidelines in ISO 14004:2004 are consistent with the ISO 14001:2004
environmental management system model, they are not intended to provide
interpretations of the requirements of ISO 14001:2004.
ISO 19011: 2002 Guidelines for quality and/or environmental management systems auditing
ISO 19011:2002 provides guidance on the principles of auditing,
managing audit programmes, conducting quality management system audits
and environmental management system audits, as well as guidance on the
competence of quality and environmental management system auditors.It is
applicable to all organizations needing to conduct internal or
external audits of quality and/or environmental management systems or to
manage an audit programme.
The application of ISO 19011 to other types of audits is possible in
principle provided that special consideration is paid to identifying the
competence needed by the audit team members in such cases.
ISO 14015: 2001 Environmental Management – Environmental assessment of sites and organisations (EASO)
ISO 14015:2001 shows you a systematic process of identifying
environmental aspects and environmental issues and determining, if
appropriate, their business consequences.
It explains the roles
and responsibilities of everyone involved in the assessment, including
the client, the assessor and the representative of the assessee. The
standard also demonstrates all the stages of the assessment process,
from planning, information gathering and validation through to
evaluation and reporting.
ISO 14020: 2000 Environmental labels and declarations – General principles
Sets general principles for environmental labelling and declarations.
ISO 14021: 1999 Environmental labels and declarations – Self-declared environmental claims (Type II environmental labelling)
This standard specifies conditions for using certain self-declared
statements (e.g. recyclable, degradable, compostable, designed for
disassembly), symbols and logos. It also describes a general evaluation
and verification process for making or checking claims.
ISO 14021 forms the basis of the Governments’s Code of Practice on
Green Claims. The code states that the Advertising Standards Authority,
the Independent Television Commission or the Radio Authority “will take
appropriate account of the detailed guidance in ISO 14021 when
investigating complaints about environmental claims.
ISO 14024:1999 Environmental labels and declarations – Type I environmental labelling – Principles and procedures
This standard sets out the principles and procedures for establishing
Type 1 environmental labelling programmes. Type 1 labels are those
based on pre-determined environmental performance criteria, against
which products can be evaluated. Examples include the Nordic Swan and
the Blue Angel.
ISO 14025: 2000 Environmental labels and declarations -- Type III environmental declarations (Technical Report)
Type III environmental declarations present quantified environmental
information on the life cycle of a product to enable comparisons between
products fulfilling the same function.
ISO 14031: 1999 Environmental management - Environmental Performance Evaluation – Guidelines
Environmental performance evaluation (EPE), the subject of this
International Standard, is an internal management process and tool
designed to provide management with reliable and verifiable information
on an ongoing basis to determine whether an organisation’s environmental
performance is meeting the criteria set by the management of the
organisation, EPE is an embedded feature of the BS 8555 standard.
Environmental performance evaluation can be divided into three types of useful information.
- Management Performance Indicators (MPI) provide information about
the management efforts to influence an organization’s environmental
performance.
- Operational Performance Indicators (OPI) provide information about the performance of an organization’s operations
- Environmental Condition Indicators (ECI) provide information
about the local, regional, national or global condition of the
environment
ISO 14032: 1999 Environmental management – Examples of Environmental Performance Evaluation (Technical Report)
This is a support standard for ISO 14031, giving examples on how to apply ISO 14031.
ISO 14040: 1997 Environmental management - Life Cycle Assessment - Principles and Framework
ISO 14040:2006 describes the principles and framework for life cycle
assessment (LCA) including: definition of the goal and scope of the LCA,
the life cycle inventory analysis (LCI) phase, the life cycle impact
assessment (LCIA) phase, the life cycle interpretation phase, reporting
and critical review of the LCA, limitations of the LCA, the relationship
between the LCA phases, and conditions for use of value choices and
optional elements.
ISO 14040:2006 covers life cycle assessment (LCA) studies and life
cycle inventory (LCI) studies. It does not describe the LCA technique in
detail, nor does it specify methodologies for the individual phases of
the LCA.
The intended application of LCA or LCI results is considered during
definition of the goal and scope, but the application itself is outside
the scope of this International Standard.
ISO 14044:2006 Environmental management - Life Cycle Assessment – Requirements and Guidelines
ISO 14044:2006 specifies requirements and provides guidelines for
life cycle assessment (LCA) including: definition of the goal and scope
of the LCA, the life cycle inventory analysis (LCI) phase, the life
cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase, the life cycle interpretation
phase, reporting and critical review of the LCA, limitations of the LCA,
relationship between the LCA phases, and conditions for use of value
choices and optional elements.
ISO 14044:2006 covers life cycle assessment (LCA) studies and life cycle inventory (LCI) studies.
ISO 14047: 2003 Environmental management -- Life cycle impact
assessment -- Examples of application of ISO 14042 (Technical Report)
ISO/TR 14047:2003 provides examples to illustrate current practice in
carrying out a life cycle impact assessment in accordance with ISO
14042. These are only examples of the total possible "ways" to satisfy
the provisions of ISO 14042. They reflect the key elements of the life
cycle impact assessment (LCIA) phase of the LCA. (Note –ISO 14042 was
withdrawn in 2006, content has been incorporated into the 2006 versions
of ISO 14040 and ISO 14044).
ISO 14048: 2002 Environmental management -- Life cycle assessment -- Data documentation format (Technical Specification)
ISO 14049: 2000 Environmental management -- Life cycle assessment --
Examples of application of ISO 14041 to goal and scope definition and
inventory analysis (Technical Report)
(Note: ISO 14041 was withdrawn in 2006, content has been incorporated into the 2006 versions of ISO 14040 and ISO 14044)
ISO 14050: 2002 Environmental management – vocabularyM
This International Standard contains definitions of fundamental
concepts related to environmental management, published in the ISO 14000
family of International Standards.
ISO 14061: 1998 Information to assist forestry organizations in the
use of Environmental Management System standards ISO 14001 and ISO 14004
(Technical Report)
ISO 14062: 2002 Environmental management - Integrating environmental aspects into product design and development
ISO/TR 14062:2002 describes concepts and current practices relating
to the integration of environmental aspects into product design and
development.
ISO/TR 14062:2002 is applicable to the development of sector-specific documents.
It is not applicable as a specification for certification and registration purposes.
ISO Guide 64: 1997 Guide for the inclusion of environmental aspects in product standards
This is a standard for product standard writers to help them
integrate environmental issues into non-environmental product standards.
It is currently being updated, with a revised version being published
in 2008. Once the new edition is published, it is likely to be adopted
as a European (CEN) standard.
ISO 14063:2006 Environmental communication -- Guidelines and examples
ISO 14063:2006 gives guidance to an organization on general
principles, policy, strategy and activities relating to both internal
and external environmental communication.
It utilizes proven and well-established approaches for communication,
adapted to the specific conditions that exist in environmental
communication.
It is applicable to all organizations regardless of
their size, type, location, structure, activities, products and
services, and whether or not they have an environmental management
system in place.
ISO 14063:2006 is not intended for use as a specification standard
for certification or registration purposes or for the establishment of
any other environmental management system conformity requirements. It
can be used in combination with any of the ISO 14000 series of
standards, or on its own.
ISO 14064-1:2006 Greenhouse gases -- Part 1: Specification for the
quantification, monitoring and reporting of organization emissions and
removals
ISO 14064-1:2006 specifies principles and requirements at the
organization level for quantification and reporting of greehouse gas
(GHG) emissions and removals. It includes requirements for the design,
development, management, reporting and verification of an organization's
GHG inventory.
ISO 14064-2:2006 Greenhouse gases -- Part 2: Specification for the
quantification, monitoring and reporting of project emissions and
removals
ISO 14064-2:2006 specifies principles and requirements and provides
guidance at the project level for quantification, monitoring and
reporting of activities intended to cause greenhouse gas (GHG) emission
reductions or removal enhancements. It includes requirements for
planning a GHG project, identifying and selecting GHG sources, sinks and
reservoirs relevant to the project and baseline scenario, monitoring,
quantifying, documenting and reporting GHG project performance and
managing data quality.
ISO 14064-3:2006 Greenhouse gases -- Part 3: Specification and guidance for validation and verification
ISO 14064-3:2006 specifies principles and requirements and provides
guidance for those conducting or managing the validation and/or
verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) assertions.
It can be applied to organizational or GHG project quantification,
including GHG quantification, monitoring and reporting carried out in
accordance with ISO 14064-1 or ISO 14064-2.
ISO 14064-3:2006 specifies requirements for selecting GHG
validators/verifiers, establishing the level of assurance, objectives,
criteria and scope, determining the validation/verification approach,
assessing GHG data, information, information systems and controls,
evaluating GHG assertions and preparing validation/verification
statements.
ISO 14065:2007 Greenhouse gases -- Specification for bodies providing validation or verification assessments
ISO 14065:2007 specifies principles and requirements for bodies that
undertake validation or verification of greenhouse gas (GHG) assertions.
It is GHG programme neutral. If a GHG programme is applicable, the
requirements of that GHG programme are additional to the requirements of
ISO 14065:2007.
ISO 14005:xxx
TC 207/SC 1/WG 3 Environmental management system - Guide for the
phased implementation of an environmental management system -Including
the use of environmental performance evaluation
This standard is currently under development. At present, it is unclear
whether it will be adopted as a standard.
ISO/DIS 14050
ROLE OF EHSQ 
The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is an
organisational management tool for the evaluation, reporting and
continuous improvement of environmental performance. The scheme has
been successfully integrated into many business types in the EU where it
is defined in legislation and the uptake is on a voluntary level. 
