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Environmental Management System

Environmental Management Systems are good management tools to evaluate and reduce environmental risks, impacts and costs. Benefits can be gained by saving resources, improving worker's health and safety and by avoiding infringments of environmental laws.

We put our Environmental Policy into practice by ensuring compliance with legislation and other demandsis achieved through effective environmental mangement system at ech production facility.

Policy
Dometic’s long term goal is that all factories with more than 20 employees should be certified in accordance with the International ISO14001 standard. In the mean time, all factories should at least implement Dometic internal environmental management program, Miinimum Environmental Requirements Program (MER).

• Appoint an environmental coordinator responsible for environmental issues at the facility and implementing the group environmental program.
• Conduct an internal initial review and environmental assessment of the factory.
• Complete the Operation & Environment Report and set targets for environmental improvements each year
• Identify and measure the environmental impact of the products and set targets for environmental improvements each year.

Status
By 2009, 11 factories were certified in accordance with ISO 14001. Remaining factories are working to certain degree according to the MER Program.

Legal Requirements

Through an outstanding network in Brussels, Germany, US and China, Dometic keeps itself up-dated about actual and future legislation. Dometic also participates in the work of trade associations, standardization bodies and the European Community working groups. The information and content is regularly brought to the attention of the Management Group, production units and sales companies.
Following are examples of legislation and international agreements that affect Dometic business currently:

• End-of-life Vehicle Directive - ELV
• Restriction of certain Hazardous Substances - RoHS
• Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment - WEEE
• Framework Directive on Energy Using Products - EUP
• Regulation on the Registration Evaluation Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals REACH
• Biocide Directive
• Fluorinated Greenhouse gases regulation - HFC
• European and International conventions on Marine legislation (IMO) 
• International chemical legislation

Product Development

The environmental impact of a product through-out its entire life-cycle begins in the design phase. Therefore it is crucial to involve R&D in the environmental work at a very early stage. It is our aim to fully intergrate environmental considerations into the design and R&D organisation through the Environmental Guidelines for Product Development.