Your organisation must first carry out an environmental audit. This serves to determine what impact your organisation has on the environment. As a result of the environmental audit, your organisation must submit an environmental statement.
Independent environmental verifiers authorised by the German Accreditation and Licensing Body for Environmental Verifiers (DAU) check the environmental statement.
If the requirements of the EMAS Regulation are met, the verifier validates the environmental statementädeclaration and declare it valid.
After validation, you must apply for entry in the EMAS register at the chamber responsible for your organisation.
The chamber will check your documents. It will inform the lower environmental protection authority of the planned registration. The authority has four weeks to comment on the registration.
If the lower environmental protection authority does not give the chamber any negative feedback, the chamber will assign your organisation a registration number.
After registration, you are authorised to use the EMAS logo for advertising purposes for the duration of the registration. The validity period is three or four years.