Title: Norms and Standards for Protected Areas in South Africa Government Notice: GN 382 in GG 39878 of 31 March 2016 Date of commencement: 31 March 2016 In terms of section 11 of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act 57 of 2003 (NEMPA), the Minister may prescribe
APPLICABLE LEGISLATION: National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998 (NEMA) – Section 30 LEGAL OBLIGATIONS: Reasonable measures to clean up pollution and to prevent pollution from recurring and external reporting DISCUSSION What is an incident in terms of section 30 of NEMA? “Incident” means an unexpected, sudden and uncontrolled release of
Title: Regulations for the procedure and criteria to be followed in the determination of an administrative fine in terms of section 22a of the Act Government Notice: GN 332 in GG 39833 of 18 March 2016 Date of commencement: 18 March 2016 The purpose of these Regulations is
Title: Air Quality Offsets Guideline Government Notice: GN 333 in GG 39833 of 18 March 2016 Date of commencement: 18 March 2016 Environmental offsets are generally defined as measures that counterbalance, counteract, or compensate for the adverse impacts of an activity on the environment. In the air quality
Title: National Atmospheric Emission Reporting Regulations, 2015 Government Notice: GN R283 in GG 38633 of 2 April 2015 Date of deadline: 31 March 2016 The purpose of these regulations is to regulate reporting of data and information form an identified point, non-point and mobile sources of atmospheric emissions
Title: Regulations Prescribing the Atmospheric Emission Licence Processing Fee Government Notice: GN 250 in GG 39805 of 11 March 2016 Date of commencement: 11 March 2016 The purpose of these regulations is to prescribe the atmospheric emission licence processing fees as contemplated in Chapter 5 of the National
Title: Erratum: Extension of submitting comments Gazette number 39688, GN 70 Government Notice: GN 100 in GG 39789 of 8 March 2016 Commenting period: 8 March 2016-11 April 2016 The draft national sanitation policy was published for comment on 12 February 2016. In terms of the original notice, comments
Title: Regulations related to small-scale fishing, 2015 Government Notice: GN 229 in GG 39790 of 8 March 2016 Date of commencement: 8 March 2016 The Small-Scale Fishing Regulations was published on 8 March 2016. These Regulations provide communities an opportunity to register their expression of interest with the
Title: For comment: revised norms and standards for setting water services tariffs - Extension of comments period Government Notice: GN 96 in GG 39781of 4 March 2016 Due date for comments: 31 March 2016 The revised norms and standards for setting water services tariffs and the Pricing strategy