Analysis of the incentives and awards regulations for EMAS-organisations at European level and an assessment with respect to their feasibility at domestic level / Anreiz und Belohnungsregelungen fuer EMAS-Organisationen auf europaeischer Ebene und Bewertung hinsichtlich der nationalen Umsetzbarkeit

The research-and-development project aims at gathering, systemising and assessing the entirety as well as selected points concerning the promotion of participation to EMAS by the use of incentives and awards regulations as practised in the member states of the European Union. It intends, furthermore, to make proposals for measures and regulations to improve the situation. This research centres on the impact of environment-policy or environmental-law instruments as regulating incentives and awards. The survey involves three different, interlocking methodical approaches: the jurisprudential analysis and interpretation method, secondary analysis and empirical components in the form of polls. The concepts of 'incentive' and 'reward' are used as synonyms. Binding commitments, explicitly promising advantages to organisations applying EMAS are considered to be 'incentives and awards regulations'. Incentives and rewards regulations have - in part - already become an integral part of the EMAS Regulation in domestic Federal law, mainly in the shape of the EMAS-Privilege Regulation (EMAS-PrivilegV). The interpretation of the incentive and rewards regulations in the member states reveals striking similarities: there, one concentrates mainly on environmental information, reduction of fees as well as promotional programmes as instrument categories. Compared to this, the categories of environmental obligations and official handling still experienced a clear, though weaker, preference. Planning instruments, official handling, environmental agreements and most of economic instruments are either not used, marginally used, or little used. As it turns out, the exemplary registration of the public sector, in particular, strongly needs to be upgraded. The instrument of 'official handling' still contains valuable potential for the promotion of EMAS. There is still plenty of room for improvement in the use of the EMAS logo, in spite of the very restrictive requirements concerning product labelling. From the results of the research-and-development project conclusions are drawn as theses. (orig.) / Die Ziele des Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhabens sind die Erfassung, Systematisierung und Bewertung der Gesamtheit als auch ausgewaehlter Schwerpunkte der praktizierten Anreiz- und Belohnungsregelungen zur Foerderung der Beteiligung an EMAS in den Mitgliedsstaaten der Europaeischen Union. Darueber hinaus sollen Vorschlaege fuer Massnahmen und Regelungen bzw. deren Verbesserung entwickelt werden. Den Kern der Untersuchung bilden die als Anreiz-und Belohnungsregelungen wirkenden umweltpolitischen bzw. umweltrechtlichen Instrumente. Die Untersuchung fusst auf der Verzahnung dreier verschiedener, methodischer Vorgehensweisen: der rechtswissenschaftlichen Analyse und Auslegungsmethodik, der Sekundaeranalyse und einer empirischen Komponente in Form von Befragungen. (orig./CB) / Available from TIB Hannover: RN 8422(2003,72) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische Informationsbibliothek / SIGLE / Bundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Bonn (Germany) / DE / Germany