PUBLICATION OF COMPLIANCE MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES

The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) has written to the Minister of Environmental Affairs to address the absence of mining sector compliance data in the 2014-2015 National Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Report (NECER). Despite a July 2015 parliamentary commitment from the Minister of Mineral Resources that mining sector data would be included in the annual report published by the Department of Environmental Affairs, the CER notes that this information was missing from the November 2015 publication. The CER argues that the failure to make this data public allows companies with significant environmental impacts to hide their compliance status, which negatively affects local communities. The letter requests confirmation that arrangements are in place to include this data in the 2015-2016 NECER.

• The Department of Mineral Resources has failed to make its compliance monitoring and enforcement data publicly available, which the CER claims allows companies with significant environmental impacts to conceal their poor compliance status.
• In July 2015, the Minister of Mineral Resources, Advocate Ramatlhodi, stated in Parliament that the mining sector's environmental compliance report would be integrated into the annual report published by the Department of Environmental Affairs.
• The 2014-2015 National Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Report (NECER), published in November 2015, did not contain any compliance monitoring or enforcement information regarding the Department of Mineral Resources' regulation of mining environmental impacts.

APA

Fourie, M. (2016). PUBLICATION OF COMPLIANCE MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES. Centre for Environmental Rights. https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CER-letter_DEA-DMR-CME-stats-1-March-2016.pdf?x21779

Chicago

Fourie, Melissa. PUBLICATION OF COMPLIANCE MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES. Centre for Environmental Rights, 2016. https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CER-letter_DEA-DMR-CME-stats-1-March-2016.pdf?x21779.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{fourie2016publication, author = {Fourie, Melissa}, title = {{PUBLICATION OF COMPLIANCE MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL RESOURCES}}, publisher = {Centre for Environmental Rights}, year = {2016}, month = mar, url = {https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CER-letter_DEA-DMR-CME-stats-1-March-2016.pdf?x21779}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }