WASTE MANAGEMENT LICENCES: TRANSITION-RELATED REGULATIONS GAZETTED

WASTE MANAGEMENT LICENCES: TRANSITION-RELATED REGULATIONS GAZETTED

• 10 December 2025
• Environmental Law
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment has gazetted regulations on the procedures to be followed when required by the Minister to apply for a waste management licence under sub-sections 80(4) and 81(2) as well as section 82 of the 2008 National Environmental Management: Waste Act.

Together, these provisions deal with transitional arrangements affecting waste disposal facilities established before the 1989 Environment Conservation Act came into force, as well as the holders of permits issued under that statute. This is noting that most sections of the 1989 Act were superseded by the 2008 statute when it came fully into force in 2014 (some sections having commenced in 2009).

Immediately effective, among other things the new regulations:

• make public participation a mandatory part of the pre-application process
• require the authorities concerned to decide on the outcome of an application within 120 days of its submission, and
• provide for appeals.

Please click the links below for more information:

• new regulations
• National Environmental Management: Waste Act, as amended (SAFLII)

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