The European Community prepares a procedure for evaluation of environmental performance, called Best Available Technology (BAT) in companies. Restrictions due to environmental law are already as great that companies decline further mandatory requirements. Many of the companies are ready for proactive operations and implementation of an environmental management system. A worldwide operating private organization, proposes the standard ISO 14000 by obligating companies to continual improvement, based on their own designation. This standard requires legal compliance as well as identification of significant environmental impacts of the business activity to certify. An environmental program has to be formulated according to the company's declared environmental policy. Certified auditors certify compliance to the standards.

However, many small and medium sized companies can hardly afford the costs of the building of an environmental management system. Therefore a generic solution, integrating quality, safety and environmental management is proposed here for spinning mills. By this, cost for implementation of ISO 14 000 can be cut considerably. Since the generic solution is process oriented, it allows optimizing of processes as well as allocations of costs - a new way to se benchmarks in spinning.