WASTE MANAGEMENT: DRAFT EXCLUSION-RELATED REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

WASTE MANAGEMENT: DRAFT EXCLUSION-RELATED REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

• 04 April 2025
• Environmental Law
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment has gazetted draft amendments to regulations under the 2008 National Environmental Management: Waste Act affecting the procedures followed when considering applications for the exclusion of a waste stream or portion thereof from the definition of waste. Input is sought by 4 May 2025.

Once in force, the amendments envisaged will:

• replace provisions prescribing:
  • the criteria to be met when applying for an exclusion, and
  • conditions in which the authorities may consider such applications
• set out the procedures to be followed when registering a trial with possible waste stream exclusion in mind, and
• replace provisions prescribing:
  • the elements of a risk assessment report
  • risk management plan contents
  • reporting requirements
  • the transfer, variation, revocation, suspension and surrender of an exclusion authorisation, and
  • offences and penalties.

Please click the link below to access the document:

• draft amendments

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