Get a laboratory designated by NEMA for environmental testing
National Environment Management Authority · sources read 3 Oct 2026
Fill NEMA's designated laboratory application form and send it with your lab's control manual before you start testing for EMCA compliance. There is no fee; NEMA inspects the lab, decides within 60 days and publishes designated labs in the Kenya Gazette.
- Fee
- FreeDesignation of a laboratory
- How long
- Within 60 days
- Where
- Submit the application form to NEMA (head office: Popo Road, South C, off Mombasa Road, Nairobi). The form and the current list of designated labs are on NEMA's Designated Labs page.
What you need
- NEMA's designated laboratory application form, filled in full
- Your laboratory's control manual (or equivalent documents)
- The scope you want: materials tested, types of tests and standard test methods
Steps
- Download the designated laboratory application form from NEMA's Designated Labs page and fill it in full.
- Submit it to NEMA with your control manual before you start the testing work.
- NEMA acknowledges your application, then evaluates and inspects the laboratory.
- If approved, your lab is designated and published in the Kenya Gazette.
Watch out
- Only the signatories NEMA lists for your lab may sign its test reports.
- Effluent discharge licence applicants must use an effluent analysis report from a NEMA designated lab.
Who can apply
- Testing laboratories that want NEMA to recognise their results for compliance with EMCA and its regulations.
Official sources (4)
- Designated Labs for Testing nema.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- NEMA Testing Laboratory Designation Scheme: application form nema.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- NEMA Service Charter 2025-2027 (Booklet) nema.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026
- NEMA Resolved Service Charter 2025-2027 nema.go.ke · read 3 Oct 2026