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)
- 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
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)
- Waterberg-Bojanala Priority Area Air Quality Management Plan and Threat Assessment (9 December 2015) (file is too big to upload; for a copy, please contact casewatch at cer.org.za)
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)