In 2002, OMRON established "Green OMRON 21," an environmental vision that determines the direction of OMRON's environmental management as a "21st century company," and an action plan that clearly identifies focused activities and targets.

Green OMRON 21 is designed to promote activities in six key areas, namely Eco-Management, Eco-Products, Eco-Factories/Laboratories/Offices, Eco-Logistics and Eco-Communication, centering on Eco-Mind. This aims at the long-term maximization of OMRON's corporate value and contributing to the development of a sustainable resource-circulating society.

In October 2005, OMRON reviewed the areas of activities and targets formerly specified and established a new action plan (Ver. 2) with a new target year set for 2010, the final year of GD2010.

The corporate-wide action plan is shared with all business companies, head office administrative divisions and sites under their control and incorporated into their individual action plans. While each site's implementation of the action plan is inspected by corporate audits, the target achievement status of each business company/administrative department is evaluated with the environmental management assessment system.

This assessment system evaluates each business company/ administrative division's activities in three areas--products, site efforts and compliance with environmental laws and regulations--and scores them with A, B and C ratings. The results of this evaluation are reflected in plans for next fiscal year, while C-ranked business companies/administrative divisions are required to make additional investments in environmental conservation to make sure that improvement measures are taken.