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Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: Minister’s response to amendments
2 Oct 2018
The Committee met to hear responses from the Minister on amendments to the Competition Bill proposed in the A-List.
The Minister of Economic Development took the Committee through responses to the Committee amendments to the Competition Bill. The highlights of the responses were as follows:
Clause 6 (Section 9 - ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: deliberations
19 Sep 2018
The Committee continued its clause-by-clause deliberations on the Competition Amendment Bill, taking into account the Minister’s responses to matters raised by the Committee as contained in a report from the Economic Development Department. Highlights of the deliberations were as follows:
Clause 23 seeks to amend section 43B of the Act. ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: deliberations
18 Sep 2018
The Committee continued its deliberations on the Competition Amendment Bill [B23-2018] and started the clause-by-clause reading of the bill, in conjunction with, and with reference to, the Minister’s responses to matters raised by the Committee as contained in a report from the Economic Development Department.
On clause 1, which amended ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: deliberations
5 Sep 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development met to discuss all sections of the Competition Amendment Bill, 2018. As this was a very technical Bill, the Members agreed to refer what seemed unclear to them to the Minister for a response. Guidelines were a contentious issue, with the state law adviser ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Meeting
30 Aug 2018
A member of the Committee on the Multiparty Women’s Caucus highlighted crucial organs of the CPA, including the different regions that these organs were a part of. Thereafter she took members of the Women’s Caucus through the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarian’s report where she underlined the various gender-based prejudices that women ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: public hearings day 2
29 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Economic Development received briefings from various stakeholders on the second day of public hearings on the Competition Amendment Bill, which had officially been introduced to the National Assembly last month. Its primary objective was to address the structural challenges that were considered by the Minister of ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill: public hearings day 1
28 Aug 2018
On the first of two days of public hearings, the Committee was briefed by nine entities, including organised business, trade unions, manufacturers, retailers and legal representatives, on their opinions of the proposed amendments to the Competition Act.
The Law Society of South Africa supported the objectives of the Bill to ...
Science and Technology
Science and Technology Laws Amendment Draft Bill: DST briefing
22 Aug 2018
The Department of Science and Technology briefed the Committee on the Science and Technology Laws Amendment Draft Bill. The Minister was present at the meeting. The Bill had been ATC on the 29th June and had been referred in terms of Rule 159 to the National Assembly and the National ...
Economic Development
Competition Amendment Bill [B23-2018]: briefing by Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Minister of Economic Development briefed the Committee on the Competition Amendment Bill. The Bill sought to clarify certain key aspects of the Competition Act of 1998 such as market enquiry, abuse of dominance, national security and public interest issues.
There were two aspects to the meeting - the Minister ...
Economic Development
SAB Miller & Anheuser-Busch InBev merger conditions
13 Jun 2018
This meeting was convened by the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development so that it could be kept abreast of the developments that had happened since the merger of SABMiller and AB InBev. There was an agreement between the government and AB InBev in which certain conditions were set and upon ...