April 2023 – NEMA

•Coordinating the various environmental management activities being undertaken by the lead agencies. •Promote the integration of environmental considerations into development policies, plans, programmes and projects, with a view to ensuring the proper management and rational utilization of environmental resources, on sustainable yield basis, for the improvement of the quality of human life in Uganda. •To […]

Commencement of operations to enforce provisions of the National Environment Act, 2019

Friday, March 31, 2023 On 8th February 2023, NEMA announced plans to enforce provisions of the National Environment Act, 2019 and various regulations in relation to various offences including developments without Environment and Social Impact Assessment, Failure to conduct Environment Audits, breach of conditions of NEMA certificates, littering, noise, encroachment of wetlands, riverbanks, lakeshores, pollution, […]

NEMA to Implement Express Penalty Scheme for environmental breaches

Wednesday, February 8, 2023 The National Environment Management Authority hereby informs the general public that effective 1st, April 2023 we shall in addition to existing criminal prosecution measures; commence an Administrative Penalty Scheme for environment breaches in line with Section 174 of the National Environment Act, No.5 of 2019. The express penalty scheme is intended […]

Clarifying Uganda Law Society’s challenge of the ‘car dustbin penalty’

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 NEMA has noted an article in the Daily Monitor under the headline ‘Uganda Law Society Challenges NEMA on the car dustbin penalty’. NEMA is indeed in receipt of a letter from the same Law Society seeking clarity on the basis and prescription of the sh6m maximum fine for driving a car […]

Month: April 2023

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Commencement of operations to enforce provisions of the National Environment Act, 2019

NEMA to Implement Express Penalty Scheme for environmental breaches

Clarifying Uganda Law Society’s challenge of the ‘car dustbin penalty’

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