This text is part of a series of textbooks on Environmental Management. The theme of the text is the interrelation between company management and environmental regulation with the requirements and instruments formulated there. The approach is to start from management responsibility and options for action and proceed to investigate the role that regulation can play in making companies take on their responsibility and, as a minimum, comply with current regulation. Environmental management means having accepted the company’s impact on the environment as a management responsibility and subsequently made control of and action on
this impact a part of management duties. Making environmental impact part of top-level management responsibilities is crucial for taking company intentions on this issue seriously.