STEFANIA POPADIUC, BOGDAN POPA Bucharest “POLITEHNICA” University, Electric & Hydroelectric Power Dept., 313 Splaiul Independentei, RO+79590 Bucharest 16, Romania, Phone/Fax: +4021 4029446, e+mail: stef@el+poweng.pub.ro FRANGISKOS TOPALIS National Technical University of Athens Division of Electric Power Iroon Polytechniou 9 Athens, 157 73 Greece, topalis@ieee.org CRISTIANA GEAMBASU Ministry of Public Finance Managing Authority for Community Support Framework Blvd. Μircea Vodă no.44, entrance C, Bucharest, Romania, cristiana_geambasu@yahoo.com Environmental protection keeps on being one of the main concerns of our company, together with the economic efficiency and providing of high quality energy services. The general goal of the environmental policy consists in improving the environmental management system and mitigating the power units’ negative impact in compliance with the regulations in force. The specific goal accommodates the general goal to substations and electric lines, having as short and medium term target the compliance with the European requirements. As a result, more and more companies organise environmental studies and audits in order to evaluate their environmental performance. But such activities are not sufficient in themselves to provide the certainty that the performances comply to the regulation in force, and to the environment policy requirements. In order to become effective, these studies and audits have to be organised within a structured management, based on modern systems of global pollutants monitoring. These activities correspond to the ever stricter regulation and to the development of the economic policies and similar measures liable to stimulate environmental protection and the interest of the implied parties on environmental issues, sustainable development included. International standards on environmental management aim at providing the interested parties the fundamental elements of an environmental management system, elements that are specific to other management requirements as well and are expected to facilitate the companies to reach their environmental and economic objectives. The success of these activities depends on the company commitment at each level and responsibility. KeyWords: research project, environmental impact, monitoring system, magnetic field, cumulative exposure, biological risk ! " #$ % is facing hard problems regarding EMF – pollution management. The risk assessment regarding HV Equipment of our company involves very precise measurements and the awareness campaign of all the involved parts: owner (power system industry), residential population, operating personal, the National Regulatory Authority, Government. The research projects support the environmental policy of the company, which requires a strong monitoring EMF pollution; as well as the implementation of an environmental management system according to ISO 14001. The main goal of these projects is to improve the life quality of the operating personal and to diminish the environmental impact of the owner’s HV installations (TRANSELECTRICA, ELECTRICA, HIDROELECTRICA, NUCLEAR+ ELECTRICA Romanian Companies). All power system units, especially the ones pertaining to power systems are lately preoccupied to reach real environmental performances, so they strain to control the environmental impact of their own activities, products and services by closely following the environmental policy and objectives set forth. An environmental management system allows one company to organise and evaluate the efficiency of the environmental policy procedures, to obtain compliance to this policy, and to Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Applications of Electrical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-29, 2007 160