What are the other standards developed by ISO related to environmental issues?

In addition to ISO 14001, ISO has developed many guidelines to address other environmental issues and are published under different numbers starting with fourteen thousand and many more are in various stages of development. Under ISO 14000 series, the standards/guidelines are at various stages of development for six areas of environmental issues. Out of these six areas, three are applicable at organisational level and three to products and services.

These six areas along-with the relevant standards number for both levels of applications and their present status are listed in Table 1.

Applicable at Organisational Level
Implementing Environmental Management Systems (EMS)		ISO 14001 : 1996  This document specifies the requirements for an EMS that may be objectively audited for self-declaration or third-party certification/ registration purposes		ISO 14004 : 1996  This document provides guidance to help an organisation establish and implement an EMS, including guidance that goes beyond the requirements of ISO 14001	ISO/TR 14061  This document contains information that can assist in the implementation of ISO 14001 and ISO 14004 by forest management organisations and the forest products industry.
Conducting environmental auditing and other related investigations		ISO 14010 : 1996  This document provides the general principles common to the conduct of any environmental audit		ISO 14011 : 1996  This document provides the procedures for the conduct of EMS audits, including the criteria for selection and composition of audit teams	ISO 14012 : 1996  This document provides guidance on the qualifications of internal or external environmental auditors and lead auditors		ISO/WD 14015  This document helps an organisation to identify and assess the environmental aspects of sites and entitles to support the transfer of properties, responsibilities and obligations from one party to another.
Evaluating   environmental   performance		ISO/DIS 14031  This document provides guidance on the selection and use of indicators to evaluate an organisation's environmental performence		ISO/TR 14032  This document provides examples from real organisation to illustrate the use of the guidance in ISO 14031
Applicable to Products and Services
Using environmental declarations and claims	ISO 14020:1998     This document provides general principles which serve as a basis for the development of ISO guidelines and standards on environmental claims and declarations		ISO/DIS 14021  This document provides guidance on the terminology, symbols and testing and verification methodologies an organisation should use for self-declaration of the environmental aspects of its products and services (Type II Environmental Labelling)			ISO/FDIS 14024  This document provides the guiding principles and procedures for third-party environmental labelling certification programs (Type I Environmental Labelling)		ISO/WD/TR 14025  This document provides guidance and procedures on a specialised form of third-party environmental labelling certification using quantified product information labels and present indices (Type III Environmental Labelling)
Conducting Life Cycle  Assessment (LCA)	ISO 14040:1997  This document provides the general principles, framework and methodolo-gical requirements for the LCA of products and services  This document provides information regarding the formatting of data to support life cycle assessment		ISO 14041:1998    This document provides guidance for determining the goal and scope of an LCA study, and for conducting a life cycle inventory           This document provides examples that illustrate how to apply the guidance of ISO 14041			ISO/CD 14042  This document provides guidance for conducting the life cycle impact assessment phase of an LCA study		ISO/DIS 14043  This document provides guidance for the interpretation of results from LCA study
Addressing environmental aspects in product standards	ISO Guide 64:1997  This document helps the writers of product standards address environmental aspects in those standards
Understanding terms and definitions	ISO 14050:1998  This document helps an organisation to understand the terms used in the ISO 14000 series standards

TR: Technical Report; DIS: Draft International Standard; WD : Working Document

CD: Committee Draft; FDIS: Final Draft International Standard