THE government would amend its regulations governing the environment with a view to streamlining unnecessary costs investors incur while conducting their activities.
The Regulations, which were approved in 2015 , give experts a chance to agree with project developers on the charges for conducting the Environment Impact Assessment.
However, speaking in Dar es Salaam during a meeting with experts in environment, the Deputy Minister of State in the Vice-President's Office (Union and Environment), Mr Mussa Sima, said at times, some experts have been charging project developers more than what is recommended by the government, saying: "We want to amend or at least streamline this," he said.
Mr Sima convened the meeting, under the coordination of NEMC, with a view to listening the challenges that experts in the area face on environmental impact assessments for further government action.
"We have told the experts to stop a tendency of working as individuals... We want them to work in unison and as patriots as required by President John Magufuli... It would be easy for us to work with their union," he said, referring to the Tanzania Environmental Experts Association (TEET).
He said some experts have become stumbling blocks in the implementation of some development projects, adding: "It is the duty of the government to attract investors and this entails working on issues that they (investors) complain about."
On his side, the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Director, Dr Fadhila Khatibu, said NEMC needs to work closely with environment experts and the companies that they (the experts) represent to ensure that the environmental impact assessment and environmental audits were being undertaken in accordance with the law and regulations governing the sector.
Initially according to Mr Sima, the experts had resolved to meet at least once in every three months and deliver their concerns on ways of how to improve the sector and implement the government's action plans.
He said the environmental management sector plays a pivotal role in Tanzania's industrialisation agenda as envisioned und
