The Polish Cleaner Production Club is a NGO organisation within the Polish Federation of Engineering Societies NOT, co-ordinating the Polish Cleaner Production Programme, which has been started in 1989 within CP World Programme of UNEP- Industry and Environment Division.
For over 6 years the Polish CP Programme was sponsored by the Norwegian Government as a co-operation project of Polish and Norwegian Engineering Societies.
Assignment to the CP Club is the signing of the Polish CP Declaration, issued in 1992 by Polish Ministers of Environmental Management and Industry/Trade.
The work of the CP Club - to which CP experts and CP companies
belonged - was co-ordinated by the Polish CP Centre (PCPC) and 8 Regional CP Centres.
Since May 1999 the Polish CP Movement has
reorganised into a registered society (association). The “The Polish CP Movement”
Society has taken
over all the activities of the "CP Club". Its activity is co-ordinated as before
by the Polish CP Centre. We have also decided to use the new Polish regional
administration structure based upon 16 voIvodships as the basis for our new regional CP
structures and have started activities in 16 Regional CP Centres.
The co-ordinating body of the programme is - form the programme's beginning -
the Polish CP Centre in Katowice.
The methodology of the Polish CP Programme has now a 3-level development scheme:
- lecturing on environmental strategies and policies, including EMS,
- design work and implementation of a CP case/demo project,
- building a Policy Framework and the Cleaner Production Environmental Management System (CP EMS).
First two levels are organised in so called CP Schools (until
now 41 CP schools; each one for 20-30 companies).
Level I and/or II has been completed by about 2000 participants from about 1000 companies
and institutions ( local government, schools, universities, consulting companies a.s.o.).
Level 3 ( started in1996 ) is a voluntary EMS scheme addressed to production and service
companies.
Based on this activities we have established a Voluntary Environmental Agreements Scheme based on CP. Companies which enter the scheme, make first CP investments and set environmental plans can be given a CP Certificate and be included in the official Book of CP Companies. There are 230 companies, that received the CP Certificate until 2007. Also a high-level Polish Register of Cleaner Production and Responsible Entrepreneurship was established in 2002. Holders of the CP Certificate can apply for this register after completion of a special verification procedure connected with environmental reporting. 76 companies has been included in the Register until 2007.
Contact person in the Polish Cleaner Production Centre: Prof. Zygfryd Nowak