The paper will address the topic of technical and information systems, which constitute a very important element of supporting environmental management in an enterprise in a turbulent environment. There is a range of variants of their implementation fulfilling a number of different functions, which examined in terms of the effects of implementing systems informing about the environment in an enterprise, usually focus on typical areas of their use in environmental management, with particular reference to the evaluation of their practical importance. Implementation of the objectives related with instruments for environmental management in the aspect of improving the effectiveness of environmental protection in an enterprise enables the achievement of a specific goal implied by ecological controlling. However, these instruments are characterised by specific attributes, as most of them, having a nature of satellites, are implemented as a complement to conventional instruments. A wide range of applications of systems informing about the environment allow enterprises to systematically implement such instruments without significant financial outlay. Despite numerous unfavourable economic and ecological conditions, it should be stressed that the effects illustrating the implementation of such systems are very reliable and so evocative that integration of environmental information systems with the structures existing in an enterprise determines high quality of the final data. In the relationship between environmental management and instruments, it is very important for effective environmental protection implemented within an enterprise that the instruments are compatible and can be combined with one another, which will have a significant impact in the future on the paradigm of constantly increasing interest of enterprises in systems for environmental management through the perspective of ecological indicators and balances. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
