Environment Audit

An assessment of the extent to which an organization is observing practices that seek to minimize harm to the environment. Environmental auditing started developing at the beginning of 70s of the past century in the United States of America and in the Western Europe. In that period the developed countries were adopting the environmental legislation in order to reduce the harmful consequences of the companies' actions that had affected the environment.

Independent third party assessment of the current status of an organization's compliance with local environmental laws and regulations.