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Trade, Industry and Competition
National Consumer Commission; National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications & National Credit Regulator on their 2014/15 Annual Reports; NCR 1st Quarter 2015/6 performance
12 Oct 2015
The Committee first heard the Annual Report and First Quarter Report from the National Consumer Commission (NCC). Though problems relating to irregular expenditures lingered from previous years, the NCC had received an unqualified opinion from the Auditor General (AG) for the second year in a row. The five-year lease agreement ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill [B18-2015]: flagged clauses
23 Sep 2015
After discussing Member enquiries about the textile industry and the Centurion Aerospace Village, the Committee considered the clauses in the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill that had been flagged for further discussion during the previous day’s meeting. The Committee accepted the new definition of ‘measure’ and the DTI’s explanation ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill [B18-2015]: DTI response to submissions (cont)
22 Sep 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) went through its response to public submissions clause by clause and presented the proposed changes it was prepared to make based on the public submissions. The Committee considered the DTI’s responses clause by clause, accepted some proposals for the time being, and flagged ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill [B18-2015]: Department response to submissions
16 Sep 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) responded to the public submissions on the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill (PPIB) and defended the Bill. The presentation highlighted investment commitments from companies like Mercedes Benz, BMW, and Unilever as discrediting claims of lowered international investor confidence. The DTI was willing ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill [B18-2015]: public hearings
15 Sep 2015
In its submission on the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill, the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa (AmCham), which represents some 600 US companies operating in SA, called for the inclusion of a ‘fair and equitable treatment’ clause. It expressed concern about the Private Security Industry Regulation Amendment ...
Finance Standing Committee
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: joint workshop
11 Sep 2015
Participants at the workshop were told there were three portfolio committees coordinating the Base Erosion and Profit Sharing (BEPS) project -- Finance, Mineral Resources and Trade and Industry. This meeting was to take forward processes that had begun with the Trade and Industry Committee last year, and had gone as ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill [B18-2015]: public hearings; Trade, EU-SA Development & Cooperation Agreement (TDCA): Additional Protocol Croatia to the European Union
9 Sep 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) briefed the Committee on the Additional Protocol to the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement (TDCA). South Africa had acceded to this Protocol, which came into force in 2004 and gained full implementation in 2012. Essentially, it had increased trade between South Africa and ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications' Letters of Authority effectiveness: hearing; SPII & THRIP: Innovation & Capacity Building DTI interventions
2 Sep 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry held an engagement with various organisations regarding the effectiveness of the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) in the issuing of Letters of Authority (LOA).
What came out of the presentations was that there should be amendments to the legislative framework, especially NRCS ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill [B18-2015] briefing
1 Sep 2015
The Department of Trade and Industry gave a briefing on the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill for both the Portfolio Committee and representatives from the NCOP’s Select Committee on Trade and International Relations. DTI explained that the international investment landscape is evolving and that the Promotion and Protection of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Innovation & Capacity building interventions: briefing by Department of Trade and Industry & SABS Design Institute
26 Aug 2015
The presentation by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) on its Design Institute (DI) featured a display which had been created at Parliament, showcasing some of the products that had been developed at the DI. These included macadamian nut oil, new children’s toys, hand-painted furniture, gardening products, lactose-free products ...