National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act No. 39 of 2004
11 September 2005
Amendments to this Act
Draft Amendments to this Act
- National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Bill, 2017; see also the latest version of this Bill, adopted by the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs on 19 June 2018
- National Environmental Management Laws Draft Amendment Bill, 2015
Frameworks, Policies and Strategies
Regulations
- Regulations prescribing the format of the Atmospheric Impact Report (11 October 2013)
- Dust Control Regulations (1 November 2013)
- Regulations regarding the phasing-out and management of ozone-depleting substances (8 May 2014)
- Regulations regarding air dispersion modelling (11 July 2014)
- National Atmospheric Emission Reporting Regulations (2 April 2015, as amended)
- Regulations prescribing the atmospheric emission licence processing fee (11 March 2016)
- Regulations on the procedure and criteria to be followed in the determination of an administrative fine in terms of section 22A of the Act (18 March 2016)
- National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulations (3 April 2017); see also the notice of procedure to be followed for a Category A Data Provider to register as a Category A Data Provider (1 February 2019)
- National Pollution Prevention Plan Regulations (21 July 2017); see also the amendment published on 22 May 2018
List of activities in terms of section 21 of the Act
- List of activities which result in atmospheric emissions which have or may have a significant detrimental effect on the environment, including health, social conditions, economic conditions, ecological conditions or cultural heritage (22 November 2013); see also the amendments published on 2 November 2018 as well as an additional amendment adopted on 22 May 2019
Ambient Air Quality Standards in terms of sections 9, 10 and 11 of the Act
Priority Areas declared in terms of section 18 of the Act
- Declaration of the Vaal Triangle Air-shed Priority Area (21 April 2006)
- Declaration of the Highveld Priority Area (23 November 2007)
- Declaration of the Waterberg Priority Area (29 June 2012)
Priority pollutants
- Declaration of greenhouse gases as priority pollutants (21 July 2017)
The declaration of controlled emitters and emission standards in terms of section 23 and 24 of the Act
- Declaration of a small boiler as a controlled emitter and establishment of emission standards (1 November 2013)
- Declaration of temporary asphalt plants as a controlled emitter and establishment of emission standards (28 March 2014)
- Declaration of small-scale char and small-scale charcoal plants as controlled emitters and establishment of emission standards (18 September 2015)
Guidelines
- Air quality offsets guideline (published in terms of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998)(18 March 2016)
Draft Regulations and Notices
- Draft National Pollution Prevention Plans Regulations (Notice 171 in GG 37241 of March 2014) – comments had to be submitted by 13 April 2014
- Notice of intention to declare greenhouse gases a priority pollutant (Notice 172 in GG 37421 of 14 March 2014) – comments had to be submitted by 13 April 2014
- Draft National Air Quality Appeal Regulations (Notice 915 in GG 38122 of 24 October 2014) – comments had to be submitted by 23 November 2014
- Draft declaration of small-scale char and small-scale charcoal plants as controlled emitters – comments must be submitted by 4 May 2015
- Draft Waterberg Bojanala Priority Air Quality Management Plan – visit SAAIQ’s website and scroll down to “Draft Air Quality Legislation” for a copy of this draft management plan
- Draft Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulations (Notice 411 in GG38779 of 11 May 2015)
- Draft Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulations (5 June 2015)
- Draft Regulations Prescribing the Atmospheric Emission Licence Processing Fee (12 June 2015)
- Draft Regulations for the procedure and criteria to be followed in the determination of an administrative fine in terms of section 22A of NEMAQA (25 September 2015)
- Draft National Pollution Prevention Plans Regulations (8 January 2016)
- Notice of intention to declare greenhouse gases as priority air pollutants (8 January 2016)
- Draft Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting Regulations (7 June 2016), read with the Draft Technical Guideline on Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Industry (27 June 2016)
- Draft declaration of certain printing industry activities as controlled emitters and the establishment of emission standards (4 November 2016)
- Draft National Dust Control Control Regulations, 2018 (25 May 2018)
- Notice of intention to amend the 2012 National Framework for Air Quality Management in the Republic of South Africa (25 May 2018)
- Notice of intention to amend the list of activities that result in atmospheric emission which have or may have a significant detrimental effect on the environment, including health, social conditions, economic conditions, ecological conditions or cultural heritage (25 May 2018)
- Notice of intention to amend the list of activities that result in atmospheric emission which have or may have a significant detrimental effect on the environment, including health, social conditions, economic conditions, ecological conditions or cultural heritage (22 May 2019)