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Increased production efficiency could help promote the company's prestige, gain tax allowances, create optimistic co-operation with the state, municipality, and maintain sustainability in terms of the balance achieved between economic, environmental and social interests. Although the research until now is in an early stage, some answers had been received from questionnaire from different stakeholders. The research purpose is to create an adapted model for the implementation of the circular economy for the small and medium enterprises of Latvia in a long-term perspective. Research will focus on the following qualitative data analysis methods \ufffd SWOT, factor, economic contribution, structured interviews at expert level, overall structured interview in the form of the questionnaire. From quantitative methods, hierarchical cluster or partial cluster method will be used in this research, analysing 3966 organisations in the Eco-Management and audit scheme (from now on \ufffd EMAS) at the European level that ensure compliance with the essential environmental requirements under EMAS Regulation. Until now within the research, the number of EMAS organisations have been selected between 29 different countries in 5 sectors (energy, water, waste management, food industry, port terminals), allowing to make the cross-country comparison and describe the involvement level of EMAS in each country. Before using the cluster method, it is essential to assess the cluster trend and whether the cluster method is suitable for research data. The next step will involve using a hierarchical cluster or partial cluster method (a certain number of clusters will be created). It is necessary to use different techniques to evaluate and interpret the created cluster results in future work.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5593\/sgem2022\/5.1\/s21.089","type":"proceedings-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,18]],"date-time":"2023-02-18T11:59:41Z","timestamp":1676721581000},"page":"709-716","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["THE ROLE OF ECO MANAGEMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROCESSES IN LATVIA"],"prefix":"10.5593","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Una","family":"Libkovska","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Ventspils University of Applied Sciences","place":["Latvia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ivo","family":"Lemss","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ventspils University of Applied Sciences","place":["Latvia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"3602","reference":[{"key":"ref=1","unstructured":"[1] Access to European Commission EMAS Register. [Online]. Available: EMAS register (europa.eu)."},{"key":"ref=2","unstructured":"[2] Access to European Union Law, \"Regulation (EC) No.1221\/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of November 25, 2009, on the voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS), repealing Regulation (EC) No 761\/2001 and Commission Decisions 2001\/681\/EC and 2006\/193\/EC\", EUR-Lex-32009R1221-EN, 2009. [Online]. Available: EUR-Lex - 32009R1221 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)."},{"key":"ref=3","unstructured":"[3] Access to ISO standard 14001 \ufffdEnvironmental management\ufffd with personal license."},{"key":"ref=4","unstructured":"[4] Access to Latvian State Standard. [Online]. Available: Latvian Standard (lvs.lv)."},{"key":"ref=5","unstructured":"[5] Access to State Environmental Bureau. [Online]. 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