The European EMAS Award is the most prestigious award in environmental management and has been granted to top-performing EMAS registered companies and public authorities for outstanding environmental management achievements since 2005. The European Commission has revised the EMAS Awards to enhance the visibility for the winners and nominees. From 2014 onwards EMAS Awards will focus on “Effective eco-innovations supporting improvements in environmental performance”. In order to increase the visibility even more it has been decided to link the EMAS Awards to the 2014 Industrial GreenTec fair in Hannover, Germany. The next EMAS Awards will be handed out to winners by the European Commissioner for the Environment Janez Poto?nik on 7 April 2014.

Gianluca Salvatori, CEO of Progetto Manifattura, has been invited as a member of the jury.

There are six categories, and winners are selected by a jury has been selected among internationally renowned experts and practitioners on the basis of nominations from national EMAS Competent Bodies. EMAS registered organisations can enter the competition by completing the application form (in pdf format or Word format) and submitting it together with supporting information to their national competent body by 21 February 2014.