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Quote ISO 14001 4.5.1:
"The organization shall establish and maintain a documented procedure for periodically evaluating conformance with relevant environmental legislation and regulations"
May I know what's the intent of this clause and how do you interpret this?
What's the main differences between this clause and 4.3.3 "When establishing and reviewing its objectives, an organization shall consider the legal and other requirements, its significant environmental aspects, its technological options and its financial, operational and business requirements, and the views of interested parties".
The reason I ask this question was that during our last re-assessment audit, our CB auditors throw a question to our EMR "how do you guys assess and evaluate your conformance towards environmental legislation or others requirement?"
Our answer to this was "we monitored all out effluents discharges, gaseous emission according to our local legislation through our monthly meeting!"
The feedback from our CB auditors was we do not have a proper documented procedure towards the claims although hard evidences of meeting minutes was shown.
Does this mean a procedure for tracking such conformances need to be formulated under element 4.5.1 monitoring and measurement?
Any good advice is welcome!!!

"The organization shall establish and maintain a documented procedure for periodically evaluating conformance with relevant environmental legislation and regulations"
May I know what's the intent of this clause and how do you interpret this?
What's the main differences between this clause and 4.3.3 "When establishing and reviewing its objectives, an organization shall consider the legal and other requirements, its significant environmental aspects, its technological options and its financial, operational and business requirements, and the views of interested parties".
The reason I ask this question was that during our last re-assessment audit, our CB auditors throw a question to our EMR "how do you guys assess and evaluate your conformance towards environmental legislation or others requirement?"
Our answer to this was "we monitored all out effluents discharges, gaseous emission according to our local legislation through our monthly meeting!"
The feedback from our CB auditors was we do not have a proper documented procedure towards the claims although hard evidences of meeting minutes was shown.
Does this mean a procedure for tracking such conformances need to be formulated under element 4.5.1 monitoring and measurement?
Any good advice is welcome!!!

