The standard defines the environmental management system necessities to which organization subscribes. The organization develops the curriculum to meet its policy, objectives and authoritarian requirements and works towards continual improvement. This standard helps organizations to protect the environment, check pollution, and improve their overall environmental performance. ISO 14001:2004 is a useful tool for an organization to step up from immediately maintaining regulatory compliance to an organization with improved productivity and enhanced competitive advantage. The standard specifies the framework to understand the effect of the activity of the organization on environment and assess the impact on environment and action plan to minimize. The standard also states the rations specifying performance level as well conservation measures. ISO 14001:2004 is applicable to every business sector that wishes to establish, execute, maintain and improve an environmental management system and conform to its confirmed environmental policy.