Environmental impact management and planning: - Norway

PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY THE COLLABORATION AGREEMENTThe collaboration between the Department ofEnvironmental Affairs and the Norwegian Royal Ministry ofthe Environment has delivered a number of subprojectsaimed at implementing a regulatory framework for EIMand developing a system of tools for environmentalmanagement. These include the following:The 2009 delegation in front of an old bread oven at the remains of a Norwegian Mission Station inthe iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. From left to right: Wynand Fourie, TerjeLind, Kirsten Thyrum, Lize McCourt, Malcolm Fredericks, Danie Smit, Harald Noreik and DumisaniMthembu.• Law reform: amending NEMA and the EIA regulations.• Developing a national environmental authorisationsystem as a web-based electronic database for EIAand other environmental authorisations.• Review of the Efficiency and Effectiveness (REE) of theSouth African EIA system, which is being followed upthrough the development of the Environmental ImpactAssessment and Management Strategy for South Africa(EIAMS).• Developing a fee structure for EIA applications.• Developing a co-regulation strategy for the off-roadindustry.• Developing self-regulation mechanisms for theregistration of environmental assessment practitioners.• Developing a decision support tool in the form of anenvironmental management framework for a selectedarea along the Garden Route in the National LakesArea of the Western Cape.• The identification of environmental attributes,geographical areas and activities, as well asenvironmental attributes and geographical areas foroff-road recreational driving.• Institutional cooperation regarding environmentalimpact management and planning.3