9.4 Elements of an Internal EMA Standard rom and Danisco, OMV Larger corporations with several Verbundgesellschaft have all implemented an internal dala collection procedure as one of the outcomes of their EMA pilot assessments, which in detail specify defini for the corporate EMA assessments. tions, responsibilities and data sources Harmonized and auditable data quality for longer time periods and from scvenu sites is thus secured, 'This chapter develops a possible outline of such a procedure and is primarily experiences gained with implementing the system at OMV. Peirom based on and Verbundgesellschaft OMV is the leading oil and gas group in Central Europe. Its business activities cover every stage of oil and gas production, processing and marketing as well as petrochemicals. With sales revenues of EUR 20 billion in 2007, 33.605 employees and a market capitalization of around EUR 15 billion at year-end 2007. OMV Aktiengesellschaft is the biggest listed industrial enterprise in Austria OMV is a rapidly expanding company. At the end of 2004. OMV acquired a stake in Potrom, which was previously a state owned company in Romania. A beginning of 2005, an extensive HSE integration program was drawn up to introduce international best practice models to health, safety and environmental suandards o Petrom, OMV and the Romanian government have agreed upon modalities to deal with contamination due to operations prior to 2005. Therefore, systematic informa tion about environmentally relevant projects and cost is nceded not only from a mana- gerial point of view but also with regard to contractual terms In addition, Petrom reviewed corporate wide standards for consolidation o financial accounts, which were implemented by 2007. Therefore requirements regarding the information system such as those related to the implementation of a standardized method for reporting environmental costs were defined still in autumn 2006. Monitoring and measuring Health. Safety and Environmental (HSE) perfo mance requires reporting procedures that are able to collect data on these various organizational levels and help consolidating them up to the Group level. OMV applies an information tool with web based user interfaces that fac simple and standardized data input and validation procedures as well as group wide data consolidation and reporting. The tool is flexible enough to map organizational changes and to adapt the indicator list according to specific reporting needs HSE indicators for the following topics are reported regularly (monthly annually) Organizational inlormation HSE management (including indicators for environmental costs) HSE events and highlights Occupational health Safe