Department of Energy 3rd edition Environmental Management Plan

"The National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (NEMA), Section 11, requires national and provincial government departments listed in Schedules 1 and 2 of NEMA, 1998, to prepare Environmental Implementation Plans (EIP) and/or Environmental Management Plans (EMP), respectively, within at least every 5 years. The Department of Energy (DoE) is listed as a Schedule 2 department and is consequently required to prepare an EMP every 5 years. This EMP represents the 3rd edition EMP (period 2015 to 2020) and applies to the DoE and its relevant State Owned Companies (SOCs) and State Owned Entities (SOEs). "

"In accordance with Section 12 of the NEMA, the purpose of environmental implementation and management plans is to - (a) coordinate and harmonise the environmental policies, plans, programmes and decisions of the various national departments that exercise functions that may affect the environment or are entrusted with powers and duties aimed at the achievement, promotion, and protection of a sustainable environment, and of provincial and local spheres of government, in order to – (i) minimise the duplication of procedures and functions; and (ii) promote consistency in the exercise of functions that may affect the environment; (b) give effect to the principle of cooperative government in Chapter 3 of the Constitution; (c) secure the protection of the environment across the country as a whole; (d) prevent unreasonable actions by provinces in respect of the environment that are prejudicial to the economic or health interests of other provinces or the country as a whole; and (e) enable the Minister to monitor the achievement, promotion, and protection of a sustainable environment." ​