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National Environmental Management Act (No 107 of 1998) (NEMA)

NEMA is relevant to the regulation of all three of the environmental areas referred to, namely land-use planning and development, natural resources and pollution control and waste management.

The object of NEMA is to provide a framework for co-operative environmental governance (making sure that the government authorities co-ordinate their efforts to manage the environment) and aims to achieve this by establishing principles for:

  • State decision-making on matters that affect the environment and procedures for co-ordinating environmental functions