Management systems and audits

Environmental management systems (ISO 14001, EMAS)

Consultants of ELLE provide assistance to companies in developing environmental management systems according to the requirements of ISO 14001 standard or the European Union Environmental management and auditing scheme (EMAS), and in creating Integrated Quality and Environmental Management System. Clients are also supported in implementation of individual environmental system elements, such as drawing up environmental reports, training of staff and handling an internal audit.

Since 1999, ELLE has been co-operating with Bureau Veritas Certification – a global leader in certification services. Experts of the company are trained in IRCA registered environmental management system auditing and have carried out more than 100 audits within different companies in Latvia.

Environmental audits

ELLE has more than 10 years of experience in handling environmental due diligence audits (EDD) (incl., audits in accordance with requirements of ISO 14001), environmental, health and safety audits (EHS) in a number of Baltic and foreign enterprises (more than 100 audits in total), and more than 10 years of experience in carrying out environmental impact and risk assessments for various activities.

Our team of auditors have thorough knowledge on administrative and legal requirements in the field of environmental protection, health and safety along with many years of experience, allowing to address effectively all potential environmental and labour protection issues, both in planned projects and in existing companies and buildings in various sectors (industrial sector, office buildings, etc.).

Specialists of ELLE have worked with such international companies as ERM (branches in Poland, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden), Ramboll, SWECO, Pöyry, etc. We are well familiar with Phase I (document assessment and on-site visit) and Phase II (analysis and practical work) audit framework, as well as have established a wide cooperation network with laboratories and external experts of various fields (engineering, geology, hydrology, etc.), thus ELLE is able to cover all most important aspects of an environmental audit. Considering time constraints, ELLE experts with their experience and organizational skills are able to perform the audit work in a high quality and in a short time period.