Environmentalmanagement-Guidelinesfor environmentalduediligenceassessment
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It is identical to ISO 14015:2022. It supersedes BS EN ISO 14015:2010 This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN ISO 14015:2022.which is withdrawn.
Committee SES/1/2 Environmental Management - Environmental The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technicalperformance evaluation environmental auditing reporting environmental labelling and related environmental investigations.
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Published by BSl Standards Limited 2022 The British Standards Institution 2022
ISBN 978 0 539 05465 1
ICS 13.020.10
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for environmental due diligence assessment Environmental management-Guidelines(ISO 14015:2022)
Management environnemental - Lignes directrices relatives a I'evaluation du devoir de vigilanceenvironnementale (ISO 14015:2022)
Umweltmanagement - Umweltbezogene Due Diligence Bewertung (ISO 14015:2022)
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This document (EN ISO 14015:2022) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 207“Environmental management" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/SS S26 “Environmentalmanagementa the secretariat of which is held by CCMC.
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Contents
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Planning and conducting the assessment. 6
5.1 5.2 Roles and responsibilities General. .6 65.2.1 General. 65.2.2 5.2.3 Representative of the assessee Client. 6 75.2.4 5.2.5 Assessment provider. Assessor. 8 75.3 Planning the assessment. 85.3.1 5.3.2 Agreeing on terms and objectives for the assessment. General. 8 85.3.3 5.3.4 Scope of the assessment.. Assessment criteria. 10 95.3.5 Assessment feasibility. 105.3.6 5.3.7 Information gathering methods and techniques. Assessment plan 11 115.4 Information gathering verification and validation. 5.4.1 General 12 125.4.2 Examining existing documents and records. 125.4.4 5.4.3 Observing activities and physical conditions Interviewing 12 13Evaluation. 5.4.5 Information verification and validation. 135.5 5.5.1 General. 14 145.5.2 5.5.3 Identifying environmental issues. Determining business consequences. 14 14
Reporting6.2 6.1 Report content. Report distribution.. 16 15
Competence and evaluation of assessors. 16
7.1 7.2 Determination and application of petence. General considerations. 16 177.3 Evaluation of petence. 18
Annex A (informative) Examples of assessment topics documentation and sources. 19
Annex B (informative) Observation ofthe physical attributes and conditions. 22
