The Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE), today held a meeting at which experts presented the new UNE 0076 Specification, which provides a guide for the self-assessment of the Do No Significant Harm principle (DNSH), which is both useful for entities that intend to demonstrate compliance, and for those who are responsible for validation or verification. Moreover, funding programmes are increasingly demanding this principle, which makes it a key element for a multitude of organisations. This new standard will be available on 30 March on the UNE website.
The DNSH principle contains a series of criteria that seeks to avoid causing significant harm to the environment and its compliance is a necessary requirement in order to access European Next Generation funds, which will be providing 140,000 million euros to Spanish organizations over the next few years, within the Spanish Government's Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
This new standard compiles the content of the existing guidelines, provides details on specific aspects and includes a series of recommendations to facilitate organisations' work when preparing a self-assessment report on compliance with the DNSH principle.
The document also adds examples of self-assessment for specific cases such as R&D&I actions, non-low impact actions; low impact actions and actions that contribute to one of the environmental objectives.
Th meeting was attended by Paloma García (UNE); Adelaide Sacristán (COTEC Foundation for Innovation); Daniel Gallego and María Luisa López (ACIE-Spanish Certification Agency); Iván Moya (UNE); Marcos Escudero (Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism); José Luis Ortiz (Airbus Defence and Space Spain); María Luisa Merchán (Grupo Tragsa); and Roberto Martinez (Polytechnic University of Madrid).
