The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs has published her intention to introduce the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Amendment Bill, 2013 in Parliament during August 2013. The object of the Bill is to amend the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act 39 of 2004, so as to, inter alia –
- Align the establishment of the National Air Quality Advisory Committee with the requirements of the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998;
- Provide for the consequences of unlawful commencement of a listed activity; and
- Provide for the Minister as the licensing authority in certain circumstances.
