Air quality plan required in the Act
The National Environmental Management Act for South Africa states that each national department, provinces and municipalities that are responsible for preparing an environmental implementation plan or environmental management plan, as presented in Chapter 3 of the Act, must include an air quality management plan.
Study tours and workshops
A number of Study Tours and workshops are being conducted as part of the AQMP development. The objective of these Study Tours is to exchange information and know-how on Air Quality Management planning between Reference Group members. The presnetations from these work shops can be found under "documents".
Workshops for draft AQMP Manual
A draft manual was submitted to the reference group at the end of February 2008 for comment. The representatives from provincial and local spheres of government were then invited to attend a workshop presenting the draft manual. The intention of the workshop was to present the manual and allow feedback from officials at the different levels of government to inform the final version of the manual. Workshop report can be found under "documents".