Environmental Policy of the MVM Group

The MVM Group is a key participant in the electricity industry in Hungary. Its activities cover the generation and trade of electricity, the operation of the electricity system, the development, operation and maintenance of the transmission system, the operation of power plants, district heating supply, as well as IT, financial, accounting, engineering consulting and logistics services.

In the course of performing its duties, the Group inevitably affects the condition of both the natural and built environments. Identifying itself with the fundamental principles of sustainability, the Group sets it as its common objective to reduce the impacts on the environmental components and ecological systems, to cut down on pollutant emissions as well as to remediate previous and prevent further environmental damage.

The Group performs its operations in compliance with the environmental requirements stipulated in the relevant laws, licences, permits, standards, regulations and by-laws and requires its partners to do the same. The Group supports and furthers the implementation of national climate policy objectives, and acts proactively to meet domestic and European requirements. In order to achieve a constant improvement of its environmental performance, the Group has included energy conservation and the rationalisation of the utilisation of natural resources among its priorities.

With regard to the large amount of primary energy utilised by the Group, the improvement of efficiency fundamentally contributes to reducing loads to the environment. With this in view, in its development activities, the Group gives priority to capital expenditures on state-of-the-art equipment which has higher energy efficiency and seeks to replace the obsolete technologies of the electricity system.

Indicating its commitment, the Management of the Group pays special attention to improving its staff’s professional competence and their commitment to sustainable development and thus to environmental protection by providing them opportunities to exchange experience and regular training programmes.

The Group compiles a Sustainability Report every year, in which it informs the stakeholders about the environmental impacts of its operations and its achievements.

The Group reviews its Environmental Policy on a regular basis and makes it available to the public as well.

Budapest, 30 January 2009

Imre Mártha

Chief Executive Officer

Sustainability Report 2003
Sustainability Report 2004 

Sustainability Report 2005

Sustainability Report 2006
Sustainability Report 2007

Environmental and Social Report 2008 

Certification of Environmental Management System	Certification of Quality Management System