ANNUAL REPORT 2008 - Gorenje Group

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2008
the EU market. In order to ensure compatibility by the regulation the Company has limited its purchases
from suppliers of registered substances and materials/components that do not contain any
SVHC substances (Substances of Very High Concern).
On 29 August 2008 the environmental agency of the Republic of Slovenia issued to Gorenje d.d.
an environmental permit for the operation of the device that may cause large-scale environmental
pollution, for the operation of the device for surface treatment of metals with the use electrolytic
or chemical substances with a total volume (without rinsing) of 215.4 m 3 . The environmental permit
defines the measures and requirements for the prevention and reduction in emissions, for waste
management and for efficient energy use, permitted maximum limits of emissions, obligations of
an operator relating to monitoring performance and reporting and operating conditions that the
operator shall fulfil due to the insurance of environmental protection.
A regular audit of environmental management system was conducted in the company Gorenje
I.P.C. in accordance with the requirements of ISO 14001 and the EMAS regulation. As the second
company in Slovenia the Company has been entered in the EMAS register.
In the plant in Valjevo, Serbia the majority of activities was related to the harmonisation of the
operation with the new legislative requirements. An activity program for obtaining the integral of
the environmental permit was confirmed in the republic of Serbia last year.
The upgrade of old ecological burdening continued in the factory Mora Moravia in the Czech Republic;
it started in the year 2002 and the its total costs amounting to EUR 6.1 million shall be paid
by the Czech state. Numerous measures decreased the quantities of produced hazardous and deposited
waste and water consumption. The new waste water treatment plant achieves a high level
of waste water purification and the result is exemption from payment of the environmental tax.
HOME INTERIOR DIVISION
Changes in the legislative requirements relating to all environmental segments being introduced
per production programme have been monitored in Home Interior Division of Gorenje. Another integral
IPPC environmental permit has been obtained for the kitchen programme and the ceramics
programme got it a year ago.
The solution of problems of emission of volatile organic substances that has to be found for the
kitchen programme depends on the development of distempers and varnishes in the European /
world market. There have been no appropriate materials in the market and therefore the Ministry
has prolonged the deadline for the implementation of the plan of reducing HOS emissions
until the year 2010. The quantities of some hazardous waste were successfully reduced in the
bathroom programme and in accordance with the plan the emissions of volatile organic substances
decreased.
THE ECOLOGY, ENERGY AND SERVICES DIVISION
185 companies that trusted the company ZEOS to meet the obligations of collecting and managing
waste electrical and electronic equipment on their behalf completely fulfilled the obligation.
Through a network of joint ZEOS scheme 30 % more electrical and electronic equipment were
collected and processes than in the year 2007.
The efficiency of the joint ZEOS scheme was recognised in the former Yugoslav countries and
thus the company was invited to co-operate in drawing up the legislation and implementation of
the waste electrical and electronic equipment management system.