The Minister of Environmental Affairs, has published the regulations pertaining to the appointment of a registration authority responsible for the registration of environmental assessment practitioners and pertaining to the specification of tasks in relation to an application for environmental authorisation that may only be performed by a registered environmental assessment practitioner, under sections 24(5)(e), 24H and 44 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No.107 of 1998), in the Schedule thereto.