Examples of Zambia Environmental Management Agency in a sentence
Zambia’s environmental legislation requires that a separate environmental project brief be prepared for each separate material extraction site and contractors are required to obtain permits from the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) for borrow pits and quarry sites.
The project brief is to be submitted to the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) who, upon approval, grants a permit for extraction of materials.
The Controlling Officer submitted that experts from the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) had been engaged to check and advise on the method of storage and disposal of chemicals.
Consultations with various key stakeholders such as MOAL staff, CVRI, Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Control Centre, Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA), Central Statistical office (CSO), Livestock Services Ltd, Kasisi Agricultural Training Center (KATC).
Section 7(1) of the EMA reads thus: "The Environmental Council established under the repealed Act shall continue to exist as a body corporate as if established under this Act and is hereby re-named the Zambia Environmental Management Agency." This provision simply establishes the authority as a corporate body capable of suing or being sued, and does not guarantee its independence in the manner it carries out its mandate.
At the national level, the project falls within the 2nd Schedule of the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations of 1997, and accordingly IDC has developed an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)/Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) and submitted it to ZEMA for approval before commencement of works, which in turn has been transferred to the Project Company.
National requirement will be in line with the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) Act (EMA, 2011) and regulations which are involved in aspects of environmental management and these institutions and their legislative responsibilities are summarized in Table 4.
The Environmental Management Act establishes the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA).
The legislative responsibility of environmental impact assessment is vested in the Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) which administers the Environmental Management Act (EMA) No. 12 of 2011, Statutory Instrument No. 28 of 1997 – The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Regulations.
The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA – formerly the Environmental Council of Zambia) is responsible for monitoring and enforcing compliance with environmental legislation.