Paul Bippus GmbH - Environmental Principles

The Paul Bippus environmental policy is made known to each and every employee and is obligatory for every member of staff. Each employee is responsible for achieving our environmental protection goals. Environmental protection for us is not merely fulfilling legal and official conditions. Therefore all coworkers are encouraged to propose improvements on their own initiative and avail of all necessary measures to implement such improvements.

Guidelines for Environmental Policy

Laws:

We are committed to consistent compliance with all existing environmental laws and regulations concerning our business activities.

Improvement:

We regard our task to be the continuous improvement of our environmental performance. The improvements refer to the areas of environmental aspects of our activities and environmental management.

Environmental Awareness:

We encourage employee environmental awareness at all corporate levels via information, appropriate training measures and regularly recurring environmental audits.

Safety:

Our goal is to create products which are safe to manufacture, safe to use and safe to dispose. The greatest care is taken for the safety of the factory operations. This also includes risk minimization and preventative measures.

Environmental Surveillance:

We implement autonomous surveillance of all environmental consequences at the locations in Oberndorf Boll and Epfendorf regarding facilities, products, emissions and disposal. Furthermore, we are working purposefully on waste avoidance and waste separation.

Minimization:

We are committed to limiting the human and environmental burden to the absolutely necessary levels in manufacturing, storage, transport, sales, marketing and applications of products.

Targets for 2002

We will establish a documented Environmental Management System according to DIN EN ISO 14001 in 2002, so that environmental protection will be understandably and systematically organized for everyone. The effectiveness shall be confirmed through certification. We are checking the volume of our emissions regarding air, water and earth in order to identify risks of environmental burdening, comply with legal demands and initiate specific measures for reduction. We will support our employees in the improvement of our environmental performance through specific training measures.

Oberndorf, 18.11.2002