National Environmental Management Act (107/1998): Amendment of the enabling provision under which the Regulations laying down the procedure to be followed for the adoption of spatial tools or environmental management instruments has been made The Minister has amended the enabling provision for the regulations laying down the procedure to be

Notice No 2466 of Government Gazette No. 46871 published on 8 September 2022.  National Environmental Management Act (107/1998): Consultation on the intention to exclude the development and expansion of solar photovoltaic installations from the requirement to obtain an environmental authorisation based on compliance with an adopted environmental management instrument The minister is consulting

Proposed amendments to the procedures for the assessment and minimum criteria for reporting on identified environmental themes in terms of sections 24(5)(a) and (h) and 44 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998, when applying for environmental authorisation (Terrestrial Animal Species Protocol).

It is hereby notified that the President has assented to the following Act, which is hereby published for general information: Act No. 02 of 2022: National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Act, 2022

Dear Stakeholders Attached hereto please find a questions and responses document relating to the relationship between the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, the National Appeal Regulations and the Protection of Personal Information Act. Also attached is our previous communication in this regard as Annexure A, for ease of reference. Following the distribution of

Dear Stakeholders  Attached hereto please find a summary of a legal opinion on the status of the existing dangerous goods activities (and the definition of “dangerous goods”) in Listing Notices 1 – 3 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014, as amended, as well as the Departmental position in this regard, for

Dear Stakeholders  Attached please find a Government Notice containing a declaration of four tree species as protected and the publication of the annual list of all tree species which are protected under section 12 of the National Forest Act.  Regards Santie Ms S S Janse van RensburgNational Department of Forestry, Fisheries

A Field Guide to the Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Southern Africaby Christian Fry Jacana Media are excited to share the news of their new book A Field Guide to the Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Southern Africa by Christian Fry. Fry’s latest book features the incredible variation and beauty of commonly encountered freshwater

The Minister of Forestry Fisheries and the Environment has identified the Expanded Eastern and Western Strategic Transmission Corridors which are of strategic importance when planning for the development of electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure in terms of S24(3) of the National Environmental Management Act, as expansion of the Strategic Transmission