ISO 14001 is the international standard for environmental management, and it is now a qualification requirement in construction, extractive industry, energy and agro-processing, both for international clients and for access to financing with environmental requirements. AGH prepares your company to meet it; DQS certifies.
The company must identify the environmental aspects of its activity and the impacts that result from them, know and comply with legal requirements, define environmental performance objectives, control operations with environmental risk, be prepared for emergencies and monitor results, within a cycle of continual improvement.
We survey environmental aspects and impacts, verify legal compliance, produce the documentation and procedures, train the team and conduct the internal audit. This is our preparation service, delivered until the company is ready for the certification audit.
DQS, an accredited and independent certification body, carries out the certification audit and issues the certificate, which is contracted and paid to DQS. AGH is DQS's exclusive Channel Partner in Angola.
A typical journey for a small or medium company runs from five to nine months, depending on the environmental complexity of the operation, the sites involved and the initial state of legal compliance. The diagnosis sets the timetable.
Two separate costs: AGH's fees for preparation and the certification audit contracted to DQS. Both depend on size and scope, and are set following the free diagnosis.
ISO 14001:2026 has already been published, on 15 April 2026, and companies certified to the 2015 version have until April 2029 to transition. The revision strengthens the integration of climate change and emissions, the principles of the circular economy, consideration of biodiversity and a more practical life cycle perspective. We are already preparing to the updated version, so you start out aligned with what buyers and financiers will require.
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There are more than 25,000 international ISO standards. The vast majority are technical standards; the ones a company actually certifies against number a few dozen, and these pages cover those most in demand in Angola. For all the others we rely on DQS, our partner and one of the ten largest certification bodies in the world, certifying more than 35,000 organisations in over 130 countries against dozens of international standards, schemes and accreditations. If the certification, scheme or accreditation you need is not here, talk to us: we will help you find it and activate it.
Talk to usWe follow the AGH Method · International Conformity: five phases, from diagnostic to continual improvement, with preparation by AGH and the Export Lab network and certification carried out independently by DQS.
See our methodologyWithin 48 working hours we return a reading of your company's starting point and a concrete plan to move towards certification.
