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ICC PRINCIPLES
1. Corporate priority
To recognise environmental management as among the highest corporate priorities
and as a key determinant to sustainable development; to establish policies,
programmes and practices for conducting operations in an environmentally
sound manner.
2. Integrated management
To integrate these policies, programmes and practices fully into each
business as an essential element of management in all its functions.
3. Process of improvement
To continue to improve corporate policies, programmes and environmental
performance, taking into account technical developments, scientific understanding,
consumer needs and community expectations, with legal regulations as a
starting point; and to apply the same environmental criteria internationally.
4. Employee education
To educate, train and motivate employees to conduct their activities in
an environmentally responsible manner.
5. Prior assessment
To assess environmental impacts before starting a new activity or project
and before decommissioning a facility or leaving a site.
6. Products and services
To develop and provide products or services that have no undue environmental
impact and are safe in their intended use, that are efficient in their
consumption of energy and natural resources, and that can be recycled,
reused, or disposed of safely.
7. Customer advice
To advise, and where relevant educate, customers, distributors and the
public in the safe use, transportation, storage and disposal of products
provided; and to apply similar considerations to the provision of services.
8. Facilities and operations
To develop, design and operate facilities and conduct activities taking
into consideration the efficient use of energy and materials, the sustainable
use of renewable resources, the minimization of adverse environmental
impact and waste generation, and the safe and responsible disposal of
residual wastes.
9. Research
To conduct or support research on the environmental impacts of raw materials,
products, processes, emissions and wastes associated with the enterprise
and on the means of minimizing such adverse impacts.
10. Precautionary approach
To modify the manufacture, marketing or use of products or services or
the conduct of activities, consistent with scientific and technical understanding,
to prevent serious or irreversible environmental degradation.
