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Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Green Fund; Convention on Control of Trans Boundary Movements of Hazardous Waste & Disposal: briefing
12 May 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs agreed that South Africa should ratify the Basel Convention Ban Amendment, after a briefing by the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) on the Convention. The Basel Convention was an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
“Working For” Environmental Programmes & Green Fund EPWP projects; Famine Weed invasive alien; Value-Added Industries/Eco-Furniture; Committee Report on DEA Budget
28 Apr 2015
The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) briefed the Committee on the Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) projects in its “Working For” environmental programmes and the Green Fund. It looked at performance compared to its targets, distribution of work opportunities, demographics, five-year performance estimates for environmental programmes and job creation within ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Department of Environmental Affairs and Entities, Strategic Plans 2015/16 - 2019/2020, Annual Performance Plans 2015/16 and Budget Vote 30 continuation
24 Mar 2015
SA Weather Service
The SAWS presentation covered its mandate, its strategic plan and annual performance plan, its key programs goals and objectives and its financial projections.
Members asked SAWS if any amendments to its enabling legislation would appear before the Committee soon and if so which areas of the legislation ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Department of Environmental Affairs on their Strategic Plan for 2015-2019
20 Mar 2015
The Committee met with senior staff of the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) to go through the Department's medium term strategic plan for 2014-2019 following from a previous meeting where, due to a lack of time, the Department and Committee could get through only programme one (administration) of the plan. ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Department of Environmental Affairs & SA Weather Service Strategic and Annual Performance Plans 2015, Minister present
17 Mar 2015
The Committee, in the presence of the Minister of Environmental Affairs, met with the senior officials of the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) to receive a briefing on the DEA's strategic plans for 2014 to 2019. However, time precluded anything more than the general overview and Programme 1 being presented ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Department of Environmental Affairs on its 3rd quarter 2014/15 performance and targets outlook
10 Mar 2015
The Committee met with the Minister of Environmental Affairs and senior officials of the Department to discuss achievements on the Department’s 2014/15 strategic plans and targets for the third quarter of the financial year. The Committee was taken through each of the Department’s programmes, including administration, where the targets partially ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Air Quality Management Act: applications by companies / entities to postpone adherence; UN Sustainable Development Goals: progress report
6 Mar 2015
The Department of Environmental Affairs briefed the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs on the postponement applications made for compliance timeframes with Section 21 of the Air Quality Act (AQA).
The presentation focused on the overall approach taken, the processes that were followed in reviewing the applications, and the decisions made ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Rhino Poaching: progress report; 3rd Term Progress Report on achievements of 2014/15 Strategic Plans; Planned legislation/ regulations/ treaties for 2015/16 , with Minister & Deputy
3 Mar 2015
The Committee, in the presence of the Minister and Deputy Minister of the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and senior officials of the Department was briefed on the state of wildlife crime in SA. The comprehensive presentation looked at the role of the Environmental Management Inspectors (EMIs), green scorpions and the ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
Progress report on air pollution hotspots; Committee Programme; Meeting with delegation from Norway
24 Feb 2015
The Committee met for the first time this year to discuss a number of in-house matters including the adoption of an outstanding set of minutes, the draft Committee programme for the first term and a draft oversight report to the Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces on air quality hotspots conducted last ...
Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment
PC Environmental Affairs: Adoption of Minutes
11 Nov 2014
The Department of Environmental Affairs was supposed to brief the Committee. However, this engagement was postponed because the Minister, her Deputy and the Director-General were unavailable to attend. Instead, the Committee considered and adopted the minutes of two previous meetings. Some discussion was held on whether the Committee’s catering was ...