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Relationship Between National Environmental Act And MEMA (SO5-AC3))
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National Environmental Management: Waste Act 59 of 2008 aims:
- to reform the law regulating waste management in order to protect health and the environment by providing reasonable measures for the prevention of pollution and ecological degradation and for securing ecologically sustainable development;
- to provide for institutional arrangements and planning matters;
- to provide for national norms and standards for regulating the management of waste by all spheres of government;
- to provide for specific waste management measures;
- to provide for the licensing and control of waste management activities;
- to provide for the remediation of contaminated land;
- to provide for the national waste information system;
- to provide for compliance and enforcement; and
- to provide for matters connected therewith.
The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is established under the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act No. The supreme objective underlying the enactment of EMCA 1999 was to bring harmony to the management of the country's environment.
The purpose is to provide for cooperative, environmental governance by establishing principles for decision-making on matters affecting the environment, institutions that will promote cooperative governance and procedures for co-ordinating environmental functions exercised by organs of state; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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