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Trade, Industry and Competition
Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill & Copyright Amendment Bill: Department & Parliamentary Legal Advisor responses to submissions; BRRR
9 Oct 2018
The Committee discussed the draft Budgetary Review and Recommendations report in detail, adding recommendations and making amendments where necessary, but was unable to conclude the matter in the time available. The Committee referred to the analysis of how many targets had been met and asked if the report gave reasons ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill: public hearings day 1
13 Sep 2018
The Portfolio Committee held public hearings for those who had made written submissions on the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill. As the Committee was keen on hearing the voices of performers, a special call had been put out for performers to attend the hearings to tell their stories and to indicate ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Sugar Regulations; DTI 2017/18 Annual Report & Quarter 1 performance with AGSA input
13 Sep 2018
The Portfolio Committee was briefed by Auditor-General South Africa on the audit findings of the Department of Trade and Industry and its entities. AGSA informed the Committee that the report did not include findings on the South African Bureau of Standards and the National Lotteries Commission because neither entity had ...
Mineral Resources and Energy
State Capture allegations: process; Department of Mineral Resources Quarter 1 performance
12 Sep 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on its first quarter performance report for the 2018/2019 financial year, and deliberated on the progress made on its inquiry into allegations of corruption in the DMR.
The DMR said its overall expenditure up to 30 June 2018 had ...
Energy
Fuel Price: Minister of Energy briefing; with Deputy Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Energy (DoE) to discuss the country’s high fuel prices.
At the outset, the Minister was asked to explain why nobody from the DoE had attended the previous meeting. The Minister said this had been due to a miscommunication that the meeting had ...
Energy
Fuel Price: Department of Energy briefing (postponed)
14 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Energy was supposed to receive a briefing from the Minister and the Department of Energy on the fuel price. The meeting was scheduled because there had been a lot of discussion in the public domain about the high fuel price and the impact it not only ...
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
'Debt intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: DTI Socio Economic Impact Assessment terms of reference; outstanding decisions
16 May 2018
The Department presented the revised terms of reference for the Socio Economic Impact Assessment Study (SEIAS) which it would outsource to be conducted over 16 weeks. The areas of focus will be:
- Total debt, consumer credit standings, extent of consumer over-indebtedness by race, gender, employment type, income level, geographical ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
"Debt Intervention" National Credit Amendment Bill: revised version
9 May 2018
The Parliamentary Advisor took the Committee through the draft Bill clause by clause. The following matters were highlighted:
On Clause 1, the clause dealt with the definitions. The debt intervention measure requires that credit agreements must be unsecured for qualification. Joint-estates also qualified for the measure because it is regarded ...
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 ...