Notice No. 1150

31 October 2020

GG 43855

Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries

I, Barbara Dallas Creecy, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, hereby under sections 24(5)(a) and (h) and 44 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998), prescribe protocols in respect of specific environmental themes for the assessment of, as well as the minimum report content requirements on, the environmental impacts for activities requiring environmental authorisation, as contained in the Schedule hereto. When the requirements of a protocol apply, the requirements of Appendix 6 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014, as amended, promulgated under sections 24(5) and 44 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998), are replaced by these requirements.

Each protocol applies exclusively to the environmental theme identified within its scope. Multiple themes may apply to a single application for environmental authorisation, and assessments for these themes must be undertaken in accordance with the relevant protocol, or where no specific protocol has been prescribed, in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014, as amended.

The requirements of these protocols will apply from the date of publication, except where the applicant provides proof to the competent authority that the specialist assessment affected by these protocols had been commissioned by the date of publication of these protocols in the Government Gazette, in which case Appendix 6 of the Environmental impact Assessment Regulations, 2014, as amended, will apply to such applications.

Barbara Dallas Creecy

Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment