Surveillance audit of the operating environmental management system (EMS) has been started at Kola NPP. The expert committee, consisting of representatives of DQS independent entity of management system certification and an inspector from All-Russian Research Institute for the Operation of Atomic Power Stations OJSC will conduct EMS compliance analysis with GOST ISO 14001-2007 standards.

The national standard (international standard ISO 14001:2004 analogue) as well as planned measures on EMS development and updating appear to be the testing criteria.

The experts will study the plant subdivisions production operation in the field of environmental safety. Results of the internal inspections and audits, which have been held at the NPP during the year, will be looked up. Separately the expert committee will study emergency preparedness issue as well as positive practice examples in the course of EMS introduction, operation and improvement.

The environmental management system (EMS) is one of the Kola NPP administration management system elements, which was introduced and certified at the plant in 2008. EMS contributes to saving of the Kola Peninsula nature in the most effective manner and environmental acculturation of the plant personnel in the whole.

In accordance with results of the accreditation audit, which Kola NPP successfully passed in 2010, the NPP got the certificate confirming a high level of the plant environmental safety and compliance with all environmental legislation standards.

Training seminars devoted to environmental safety and improvement of the environmental management are regularly held at the NPP for the plant staff: subdivision heads and middle managers.