Dr Laurraine Lotter, the Chief Executive Officer of CAIA outlined the need to do more to achieve required emission standards and further sketched the existing legal framework for air quality management in the country. CAIA was of the opinion that emissions standards that its members are expected to comply with were determined without the involvement of industry. Members of the Committee asked CAIA to qualify this statement, as policy and law- making in South Africa is known to go through broader public participation to encourage the involvement of affected and connected stakeholders. The Committee wanted clarity from CAIA on why its views were not considered and further asked to determine whether CAIA members were already implementing the relevant legislation in terms of emission standards, and the specific challenges that they had encountered in the process.