{"id":4714,"date":"2023-03-26T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/196.43.177.126\/121223\/1\/?page_id=4714"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:08:06","slug":"auditing-inspections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nema.go.ug\/en\/auditing-inspections\/","title":{"rendered":"Comp Audit and Inspection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n    <section class=\"u-clearfix u-section-2\" id=\"block-1\">\n      <div class=\"u-clearfix u-sheet u-valign-middle-sm u-valign-top-xl u-sheet-1\">\n        <div class=\"u-clearfix u-expanded-width-sm u-expanded-width-xs u-group-elements u-group-elements-1\">\n          <div class=\"fr-view u-clearfix u-rich-text u-text u-text-1\">\n            <p id=\"isPasted\"><span style=\"font-size: 2.230769230769231rem;\">Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Audit<\/span>\n            <\/p>\n            <p>\n              <strong>What is an Environment <strong id=\"isPasted\">&nbsp;Compliance<\/strong> Audit?\n              <\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <p id=\"isPasted\">Environmental compliance audit\u201d means a mandatory environmental audit carried out to determine the compliance status of a project with environmental and health regulatory requirements and relevant permits, licences and approval conditions;<\/p>\n            <p>\n              <strong>Why undertake Environment Compliance Audits?<\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <ul>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Verify compliance with legal requirements such as ensuring that restoration is undertaken, and compensation made for damages and liabilities caused by the activity.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">EA provides for the development of an Environment.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Management &amp; Monitoring Plan (EMMP).<\/li>\n              <li id=\"isPasted\" style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Ensuring observance of proper environmental safeguards in development strategies, projects, and policies.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Increasing self-monitoring and auditing by permit holders.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Reducing public complaints.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Reducing water, air, and land pollution.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Increasing Environmental Auditing and permit applications.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Increasing regulated community participation in compliance monitoring.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Reinforcing credibility of environmental protection efforts.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Enhancing compliance monitoring, enforcement, and reporting.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Strengthening compliance assistance for increased impact.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Ensuring timely review and processing of Environmental Audits and permit applications.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Enhancing data collection, processing, and analysis for decision making.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Reviewing Audits, permitting and auditing facilities\/projects, pollution control, compliance assistance, and environmental quality monitoring.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Checking performance of environmental monitoring equipment.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Checking corporate compliance with environmental legislation and checking the accuracy of environmental impact predications.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Verifying or confirming compliance with environment regulations such as emission limits, effluent standards, waste management practices, and EIA Regulations.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Liaising with the Legal Section in developing environmental audit guidelines and regulations.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Carrying out inspection of sites threatened by degradation.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Maintaining a register (database) on auditors practitioners and audits done.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Reviewing audits and EIA reportsEnsuring restoration and compensation of damages or liabilities caused<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Ensuring compliance with audit and inspection requirementsIdentifying areas of weakness and problems and in so doing ensure solutions.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Collecting and analyzing relevant and sufficient audit evidence to determine audit findings and reach audit conclusions.<\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n            <p>\n              <strong>Who is supposed to undertake environment audit?<\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <ul>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">The developer of a project or activity listed in Schedule 3 of the National Environment (Audit) Regulations, S.I 47\/2020 shall carry out an environmental compliance audit. The regulations specify the projects or activities for which environmental compliance audits are mandatory.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">However, NEMA may also require a developer of a project not included in the audit regulations to undertake an environmental compliance audit.<\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n            <p>\n              <strong>When is an Environment Audit undertaken?<\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <p>An Environment Audit is undertaken one year after the issuance of an Environment and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) certificate irrespective of whether the project has been completed and commissioned or not.<\/p>\n            <p>\n              <strong>Categories of Environment Audits;<\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <p>Environmental compliance audit;&nbsp;- is a mandatory environmental audit carried out to determine the compliance status of a project with environmental and health regulatory requirements and relevant permits, licences and approval conditions;<\/p>\n            <p>Environmental enforcement audit:&nbsp;- is an environmental audit undertaken by the Authority or lead agency to enforce compliance with environmental and health regulatory requirements and relevant permits, licences and approval conditions;<\/p>\n            <p>\n              <strong>What is the relationship between Environment Audit (EA) and Environment and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)?<\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <p>ESIA assesses potential future environment and social impacts of a proposed project while EA assesses the actual impact of the project.<\/p>\n            <p>ESIA predicts the likely environmental and social impacts and proposes mitigation measures of a project to be undertaken while EA assesses the compliance of a project to the ESIA conditions of approval including other relevant environmental and social requirements.<\/p>\n            <p>\n              <strong>What responses does NEMA provide after one has undertaken and submitted an Environmental Audits to the Authority?&nbsp;<\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <p>NEMA will issue an Environment Audit Certificate showing whether the entity is Compliant, Moderately Compliant or Non-compliant to environmental standards.<\/p>\n            <p>Depending on the level of compliance, in addition to the environment audit certificate, NEMA may further issue either;<\/p>\n            <ul>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">A Compliance Agreement when an entity is moderately compliant.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">An Improvement Notice when an entity is non-compliant iii. A Stop Order when there is gross and continuous breach of environment requirements.<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">Other Administrative Responses stipulated in the law.<\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n            <p>\n              <strong>Fees Payable for Environmental Compliance Audits.<\/strong>\n            <\/p>\n            <p>Schedule 3 of the National Environment (Audit) Regulations S.I 47\/2020 set out the fees payable for Environment Compliance Audits while taking into account the following;<\/p>\n            <ul>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">the nature and category of the project or activity;&nbsp;<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">potential environmental and social impacts or risks;<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">the complexity of the project that necessitates additional effort for review of the environmental compliance audit report;<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">the possible involvement of specialized skills and external expertise in the review process; and<\/li>\n              <li style=\"font-size: 1.23077rem;\">the polluter pays principle and precautionary principle.<\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n            <p>Click to apply for Environmental Compliance Audit on<a href=\"https:\/\/eservices.nema.go.ug\/users\/create\" id=\"isPasted\"><\/a>\n              <a class=\"u-active-none u-border-none u-btn u-button-link u-button-style u-hover-none u-none u-text-palette-1-base u-btn-1\" href=\"https:\/\/eservices.nema.go.ug\/users\/create\" target=\"\"><span class=\"u-text-palette-1-base\" style=\"font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline;\">ELMIS<\/span>\n              <\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\n                <br><\/span>\n            <\/p>\n          <\/div>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/eservices.nema.go.ug\/revenue-streams\" class=\"u-border-none u-btn u-button-style u-hover-palette-1-dark-1 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