5.2.1 Relationship between WMOs and EMIs

5.2.1(1)
The Environmental Management Inspectorate (EMI), which is described in greater detail in Section 5.4, is responsible for compliance and enforcement of the provisions of the Waste Act. As part of their regulatory function, the WMOs have an important role to play in supporting the EMIs with compliance monitoring, which will require a close working relationship between the WMOs and the Environmental Management Inspectorate (EMI). The greater the co-operation between the WMO and the EMI, the more effective the execution of the compliance monitoring function will be.

5.2.1(2)
Currently the EMI operates primarily on the basis of reactive and strategic compliance monitoring, with proactive monitoring of secondary importance.  In terms of the reactive monitoring, the EMIs will inform the WMOs of reactive monitoring initiatives to assist the WMOs in identifying areas of non-compliance and as a means of developing longer term support interventions, which will include brokering relationships with affected parties and finding consensual ways of addressing non-compliance.

5.2.1(2)
Cooperation with the WMOs will free up resources in the EMI to support more proactive compliance monitoring. The WMOs will also provide guidance to the EMI to assist it in identifying priorities for strategic monitoring of activities that present a significant threat to health and the environment. A further area of co-operation is in the preparation of Waste Impact reports, provided for in terms of Section 66 of the Waste Act. Under certain circumstances, both can request a waste impact report and it is recommended that this be done in consultation and co-operation with each other.