AUTHORS: Patrick ten Brink-Astrid Ladefoged-Andrew Farmer-Supported by FIELD-Jurgen Lefevere

This report is a background study for the workshop – Connecting (Elements) of Company EMS with Permitting, Inspection and Enforcement – being held in London on the 12th to 13 June 2003 and organised by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) and the UK’s Environment Agency (EA). This workshop is the second in a series within the European Dialogue on Exploring New Approaches in regulating industrial installations – the ENAP-project – and joins with the REMAS project (a UK LIFE funded project ), which is a pan-European project that will examine the value of environmental management systems in the context of regulation.