3.4 Institutional Linkages

In Tanzania, the National Environment Management Council (NEMC), and Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS), jointly proposed an Environmental Management Divisional Standards Committee (EMDC), whose task is to approve standards related to managing the environment.. A Committee has been proposed to work under the chairmanship NEMC and TBS as the Secretariat. It has the responsibility of forming various technical committees to deal with specific areas of environmental standardisation. So far, it has formed two such committee, one on waste-water, and one on air. The technical committees can in turn form working group; however, working groups are disbanded once a specific task is accomplished. The full list of the proposed EMDC is as shown below.

 National Environment Management Council
 Tanzania Bureau of Standards
 Ministry of Industry and Trade
 Ministry of Water
 Ministry of Health
 Ministry of Agriculture
 Ministry of Energy and Minerals
 Division of Environment (VP Office)
 Tanzania Breweries Limited
 Southern Paper Mills
 Centre for Cleaner Productions
 Tanzania Saruji Corporation
 University of Dar es Salaam/UCLAS
 Ministry of Transport
 Tanzania Italy Petroleum Refinery
 Tropical Pesticides Research Institute
 Journalist Environmental Association of Tanzania
 Centre for Energy, Environment, Science and Technology
 Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture
 Association of Local Authorities in Tanzania
 Urafiki Textiles
 Tanzania Leather Associated Industries
 Sokoine University of AgricultureC