The Department has, according to its constitutional and legislative mandate have a regulatory role to protect and enhance the productivity, quality and safety of the environment. To achieve this, the Department seeks to promote compliance with environmental legislation and to decisively act against deliberate transgressors. Although the Department has noted an increase in voluntary compliance with environmental legislation by industry, the Department will encourage this trend over the next five years. The Department will continue to promote and increase the capacity and skills of the environmental management inspectorate operating at local, provincial and national levels and in collaboration with other security and justice agencies. In order to enhance environmentally responsible and sustainable land and infrastructure development, the Department will ensure the development and implementation of instruments to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental impact management system across the country. This effort will include, firstly, the development of zoning and risk management tools (such as Strategic Environmental Management Frameworks (EMFs) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs). Secondly, to integrate these instruments into the country's development planning and authorisation system, where appropriate through legislation. Immediate priorities are critical development areas and sectors experiencing increasing development pressures, such as for the high volume of renewable energy development applications made in terms of the IRP and the energy Strategic Infrastructure Programme (SIP).