OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel reported successful compliance certification of its Corporate Integrated Quality Control and Environmental Management System. The compliance audit was carried out by the independent certification authority Bureau Veritas Certification at the Company’s Head Office in Moscow and the Polar Division site in Norilsk.

QEMS operation in its current format was introduced in June 2007. During this period the integration of quality management and environmental aspects has improved, vertical sector based management has proved its efficiency and corporate audits have become an element of daily routine.

Mr Vladimir Shlykov head of the audit team said in the final statement that MMC Norilsk Nickel’s Corporate Integrated System has become a mature, efficient and rapidly developing management system.

Mr Jacques Rozenberg Deputy General Director of MMC Norilsk Nickel said management’s representative responsible for the implementation of international standards ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 in the three years of the system’s existence, the scope of certification has been significantly expanded through integration of processes and procedures, development of a process model, and integration of additional business units such as Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant and others.

In 2008, in addition to the previously obtained accreditation with national certification authorities of the United Kingdom and Germany, Norilsk Nickel’s QEMS was certified by the US national certification authority ANAB