Environmental Management by Honda’s Business Sites
(ISO 14001 and EMAS)

Concurrent with the building of the environmental management systems for Honda as a whole, each of the Company’s business sites are introducing environmental management systems to continuously improve their ability to protect the environment and to more thoroughly control substances with environmental impacts.
Honda has actively engaged in acquiring ISO 14001 certification, the international standard for environmental management systems, primarily for its production operations.
In Japan, all of Honda’s production sites acquired certification in fiscal 1997. Also as a part of the Green Office promotion, the Head Office building in Aoyama acquired ISO 14001 certification in 1999, along with six other regional offices in 2001, and the Head Office building in Wako in 2005.
We are also advancing efforts to acquire certification for our major production plants in North America, South America, Europe, Asia/Oceania and China. In Europe, we are promoting the acquisition of the EU’s Eco Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS).
Honda’s ISO 14001-certified business sites are as shown below, totaling 49 sites as of the end of fiscal 2005. There are currently four EMAS-certified business sites in Europe. Please refer to the upper right table for business sites that have acquired ISO 14001 and EMAS certification in fiscal 2005.
We will further promote the establishment of ISO 14001-certified (and EMAS-certified in Europe) environmental management systems within the Honda Group and encourage certified business sites to continue to retain their certification. Through these measures, we will promote the PDCA cycle at our business sites as continuous measures to reduce the environmental footprint of our business.

Environmental Audits

Environmental conservation activities at domestic sites are carried out in accordance with the environmental management program based on annual targets and the Mid-Term Environmental Plan, determined by the General Environmental Administrators’ Committee. To confirm that the environmental management system is appropriately implemented and continuously improved, in-house environmental audits and surveillance inspections by outside certification organizations are carried out in our factories and offices.
In fiscal 2005, in-house environmental audits and renewal/surveillance inspections by outside certification organizations were conducted at multiple sites. The in-house environmental audits led to 494 recommendations and suggestions, and 261 findings. The outside inspections led to two minor recommendations and 32 findings. We promptly responded to these recommendations and comments.
Further, the Mutual Visit Environmental Audit* is carried out in factories to confirm their compliance and the level of progress made in achieving their targets for environmental conservation activities based on the Company’s policy. The Mutual Visit Environmental Audit is conducted by engineers and auditors from other factories in accordance with instructions given by the General Environmental Administrators’ Committee. In fiscal 2005, the Mutual Environmental Audit was conducted from June to August.