PASSING THE BATON!

With the repeal of the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act (APPA) on 11 September 2009, the industrial emission authorisation baton is passed from the national department to district municipalities and provinces.

In order to ensure an efficient and effective transition from APPA’s Registration Certificate authorisation regime to the Air Quality Act’s (AQA) Atmospheric Emission Licensing regime, the new Licensing Authorities must, in the short-term, at least provide the same, or a better service, as the department has provided since 1965 and, in the medium- to long-term, provide a far better service. To this end, and like an Olympic relay team, all members of the team must be ready to win this race and, to do this, the passing of the authorisation baton must be slick and flawless. The 2008 Annual Air Quality Governance Lekgotla aims to kick-start the process of turning all air quality officers into an Olympic quality air quality licensing relay team.

Lekgotla Objective

All government air quality managers, through the knowledge of what can and should be done gained during the Lekgotla, are inspired to build, strengthen and/or fine-tune emission licensing capacity that is commensurate with the air quality problems in their jurisdiction with a view to a seamless APPA-AQA authorisation transition.

Sunday 28th September 2008
Arrival and dinner
Monday 29th September 2008
08:00 - 09:45	Lekgotla registration and exhibitions
10:00 - 11:30	Lekgotla opening and introduction
11:30 - 12:00	Tea
12:00 - 13:30	Command and Control Emission Regulation – Background and Introduction
13:30 - 17:00	Identifying The Challenges Ahead
17:00	Closure of Day 1 proceedings
18:00 - 19:00	Provincial-Municipal Air Quality Officer Forum meetings
19:00	Braai
Tuesday 30th September 2008
08:00 - 09:00	Refreshments and exhibitions
09:00 - 10:45	The Licensing User Manual
10:45 - 11:00	Tea
11:00 - 12:30	Licensing Capacity Development
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:15	Project Showcase: Best Practice In air Quality Governance and Climate Change Response
15:15 - 16:55	Report back and closure
18:00 - 19:00	General Interest Evening Event