National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act: Norms and standards for management of protected areas in South Africa (No. 382 of 2016).

This Notice of the Minister of Environmental Affairs, made under section 11 of the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003, provides rules, norms and standards for the management and development of protected areas as well as indicators to measure compliance. The purpose of these norms and standards is to ensure the South Africa's protected areas fulfil the purpose for which they were declared as set out in section 17 of the Act; to ensure that human induced disturbance within or originating outside of protected areas is avoided, and where such cannot be achieved is minimised and the impacts remedied; to provide a goal for protected area management authorities to strive for in managing their protected areas; to ensure protected areas are managed efficiently and effectively. the norms and standards concern, among other things, water-use planning.