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Environmental management systems

The ACS Group’s environmental management model in each company takes the ISO 14001 standard as a reference. The responsibility of overseeing the ACS Group’s environmental performance falls to the Environmental Department in each company. They develop the policies and action plans according to the environmental priorities established. In general, all the ACS Group’s companies share a series of characteristics in the management of environmental impacts.

• Of the ACS Group’s turnover in 2010, 71.69% was certified under the ISO 14001 standard.

• A total of 798 environmental audits were carried out in 2010, 3.8% more than in 2009. A total of
1,219 environmental incidents occurred in 2010, which involved the origination of a total of 32 sanctioning administrative proceedings. These figures are appreciably lower than those for 2009.

• Environmental planning is carried out in the framework of each company’s policy and environmental priorities. Plans and programmes taking in targets and goals are established annually, quantified by the ACS Group’s units and companies.

• Environmental planning goes beyond the environmental legislation, in particular in those countries where the legislation is not very restrictive. These are generally developing countries, where internationally-recognised good practices are implemented proactively.