scope:

This Standard defines terms of fundamental concepts related to environmental management, published in the JIS Q 14000 series of Standards.

NOTE 1 The notes appended to certain definitions offer clarification or examples to facilitate understanding of the concepts described.

NOTE 2 The terms and definitions are laid out in a systematic order, with an alphabetical index. A term in a definition or note that is defined in another entry is indicated by bold-face followed by its entry number in parentheses. Such terms may be replaced by their complete definition.

NOTE 3 The International Standard corresponding to this Standard and the symbol of degree of correspondence are as follows.

ISO 14050: 2009 Environmental management-Vocabulary (IDT)

In addition, symbols which denote the degree of correspondence in the contents between the relevant International Standard and JIS are IDT (identical), MOD (modified), and NEQ (not equivalent) according to ISO/IEC Guide 21-1.