id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
eistud-14490	Gurvits, Natalja; Habakuk, Triinu	ENIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN EUROPEAN UNION: SURVEY OF ISO 14001 CERTIFIED ESTONIAN COMPANIES	2016	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3849	172	45	of inhabitants Position in a list of EU countries Austria 1 172 17 138 19 Belgium 1 216 16 109 23 Bulgaria 1 761 13 243 10 Croatia 951 18 224 13 Cyprus 55 27 64 27 Czech Republic 5 831 7 555 1 Denmark 895 20 159 16 Estonia 492 23 374 5 Finland 1 512 14 277 8 France 8 306 5 126 22 Germany 7 708 6 95 24 Greece 909 19 83 25 Hungary 2 231 10 226 12 Ireland 666 22 145 17 Italy 27 178 1 447 3 Latvia 334 25 167 15 Lithuania 707 21 240 11 Luxemburg 70 26 127 20 Malta 30 28 71 26 Netherlands 2 411 9 143 18 Poland 2 213 11 57 28 Portugal 1 321 15 127 21 Romania 9 302 4 466 2 Slovakia 1 806 12 333 6 Slovenia 425 24 206 14 Spain 13 869 3 298 7 Sweden 3 990 8 414 4 United Kingdom 16 685 2 259 9 Source: Authors’ based on ISO Survey 2014 European Integrat ion Studies 2016/10 84 Figure 1 ISO 14001 certified companies in Estonia during years 1999–2015 (Authors’) 4 18 24 47 74 86 148 173 169 233 263 306 358 394 440 492 531 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Number of certified companies Years Numerous studies have been carried out to reveal the impact of the ISO 14001 certification on the performance of the companies and to find out the main benefits and obstacles associated with the certification process. More and more organizations both in Estonia and worldwide are initiating the ISO14001 certification process, which specifies requirements for environmental management systems, in order to develop and implement envi­ ronmental policy and objectives.	cache/eistud-14490.pdf	txt/eistud-14490.txt