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Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations
15 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry met to hear the completion of the report back by the Department of Trade and Industry on its responses to the public submissions on additional clauses in the Copyright Amendment Bill. In addition, the parliamentary Legal Advisor would be responding to the public ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations
14 Aug 2018
The Committee met to receive information on the 50 public submissions on the additional clauses inserted in the Copyright Amendment Bill. The Department of Trade and Industry presented its responses to issues raised in the submissions.
The Committee had not expected the volume of comment that the clauses had attracted ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Credit Amendment Bill: response to submissions & legal opinion & deliberations
31 Jul 2018
Members of the Trade and Industry Committee returned to Parliament during the constituency period to deal with the pressing matter of debt relief legislation.
Advocate Charmaine van der Merwe, Parliamentary Senior Legal Advisor, presented a legal opinion from Senior Counsel on three clauses in the National Credit Amendment Bill on ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Tripartite Free Trade Agreement; NRCS ICT modernisation project
13 Jun 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry (Dti) came before the Committee to present on the ratification of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement, and to report on the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) information communication technology (ICT) modernisation project..
The Department said that South Africa had signed the Free Trade ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Steel & Sugar Tariffs: DTI, ITAC, SARS; Sugar Industry; Space activities
12 Jun 2018
The Portfolio Committee was becoming increasingly concerned about steel and sugar tariffs. Members wanted information about reports that there had been a period of duty-free sugar imports and they were seeking answers to that question as well as the implementation of new tariffs to assist the struggling sugar industry as ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: DTI briefing on Bill and DAC & DTI positions
31 May 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave a briefing on the views of DTI and the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) on key clauses of the Bill. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor also provided legal advice so the Committee could make its independent decisions on the Bill.
Clauses 2, ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
‘Debt Intervention’ National Credit Amendment Bill: finalisation of outstanding decisions
23 May 2018
The Committee went through the ‘Debt Intervention’ National Credit Amendment Draft Bill clause by clause, and resolved all outstanding matters so that a final version of the Bill could be prepared by Legal Services and presented for voting in three weeks’ time after they had heard from the constitutional experts. ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: new working draft
25 Apr 2018
The Committee worked through the new working draft of the Copyright Amendment Bill until Clause 10. The following items were flagged for further deliberation at Subcommittee level:
- Copyright protection for computer programs;
- Whether the State can own state-funded copyright material;
- Policy issues in the Bill;
- Determination ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
B-BBEE Commission & DTI Annual Performance Plan
18 Apr 2018
Documemts handed out: Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003 as Amended by Act 46 of 2013 (Booklet)
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry dealt with two matters in the meeting: The Strategic Plan for the B-BBEE Commission 2018/19 - 2020/21 and a follow-up engagement on the 2018/19 ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Election of an Acting Chairperson
17 Apr 2018
The Committee met to elect an acting chairperson to preside over the committee meetings until the chairperson returns from her overseas trip. Mr A Williams (ANC) was elected as acting chairperson.