Since 2009 the Group has been involved in a project aimed at introducing an Environmental Management System (EMS) which complies with the requirements of the ISO 14001 standard, an international
standard that aim at providing companies elements for implementing an efficient
and effective EMS.
The main goal of the System is to manage the most important environmental aspects,
thereby implementing the Environmental Policy in order to achieve the environmental and economic objectives.
The System involves six countries i.e. Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Spain
and Switzerland, which results in coverage equivalent to 35.2% in terms of total
Group workforce and 79.3% in terms of premiums.
The EMS, which is still under implementation, currently meets the following indicators:
- presence of a documented Group Environmental Policy;
- in order to identify the relevant impacts of business activity on the environment, an environmental analysis was conducted
on the main buildings of the companies in the Group;
- key performance indicators (KPIs) for the environmental management were defined ;
- the document Group objectives and targets for environmental improvement was devised, and periodic checks (twice yearly) were
established to measure and verify their attainment;
- an Organizational Structure of the Group Environmental Management has been defined
and documented;
- a KPIs monitoring process, through a twice yearly data collection, was devised:
the first collection regards the last year’s data and is combined with the Report’s
data collection; the second one, reports the data at 30 June and is collected
during September;
- an internal information system has been set up which requires two annual reports,
to evaluate the situation at 30 June and 31 December. A review is provided by
the Top Management with the intent of continuous improvement.
In 2010, each country involved in the EMS defined and formalized their own environmental programme, including their targets and ongoing actions to help achieve Group objectives.
In order for the System to be uniformly implemented, Group procedures have been
defined for managing environmental data, documentation and communication, which
must be adopted at country level. The document system supporting the Group environmental
management is however, still in the development phase.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the Group Internal Auditing Department, the
definition of the EMS audit process has been started in order to perform an objective,
systematic, indipendent and documented verification both of the procedures issued
at Group level and of their implementation and effectiveness.
To promote the spread of a sound, lasting environmental culture among all employees
and sales forces of Group companies, the involvement through specific information
and training programmes and the definition of the environmental responsibilities
are encouraged.
