EMA
No.20 of 2004 is operational with effect from
1st July, 2005
The
Minister of state, Vice President’s Office
(Environment and Union Matters) has notified 1st
July, 2005 the date on which the Environment Management
Act, 2004 shall commence to operate. The
notification was made through the Government Notice
No.170 published on 17th June, 2005.
Acting under this newly enacted Environmental Management
Act, the National Environment Management Council
(NEMC) has on 25th July 2005, served
the firstly Prohibition Notice to Metro Steel Mills
Ltd requiring them to suspend operations due to
environmental pollution caused.
Metro Steel Mills Ltd is the first polluter company
to be dealt with under the new environmental
legislation whose Bill was passed by Parliament
last year and signed into law (EMA N0.20 of 2004)
by His Excellency Benjamin William Mkapa,
President of the United Republic of Tanzania,
on 8th February, 2005.
NEMC is developing an
environment research agenda (ERA). You are among the
potential stakeholders in this development process
NEMC’s Environmental
Research Agenda (ERA) is a strategy showing areas
where various centres of excellence in research may
focus and mobilise resources to seek solutions to
the nation’s key environmental problems.
The ERA is being
developed with the participation of stakeholders in
research with the guidance of key national policy
and strategic documents such as the National Development
Vision 2025, National Environmental Policy, the Environmental
Management Act (EMA) 2004, and the National Strategy
for Growth and Reduction of Poverty in which priority
environmental and poverty problems are highlighted.
One of the expected
key outcomes of the ERA will be engagement of national
research capacities in prioritizing environmental
research in their overall programs of work. Additionally,
the implementation of the ERA will provide outputs
upon which the preparation of the National State of
the Environment Report will be based.
