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Trade, Industry and Competition
Engagement with Minister of Trade and Industry with regards to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission & Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Codes of Good Practice
19 May 2015
The Minister of Trade and Industry appeared before the Committee to address the concern over the recent and widely publicised resignation of the Commissioner of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), Ms Astrid Ludin. The Minister also addressed the confusion that arose with the introduction of the new Broad-Based ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Sugar Association regarding alternative energy sources briefing; Committee Reports on Transfer Pricing & Trade and Industry Budget
13 May 2015
Formal consideration of the Committee’s report on Budget Vote 34: Trade and Industry
Recommendations for the Committee’s report on Budget Vote 34 focused mainly on the proposed Black Industrialist Development Programme and the opposing views Members had in curbing the illegal activities and non-compliance in the scrap metals industry. DTI ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Space Affairs Act: Proposed Amendments: SA Council for Space Affairs briefing; Budget Report deliberations
12 May 2015
The South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA) gave a briefing on the review of the Space Affairs Act, which currently governed space affairs in South Africa. The Act was passed in 1993 and amended in 1995. There had been significant developments since then in the national space arena, including ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Committee Report on Trade and Industry Budget Vote & Transfer Pricing
30 Apr 2015
Members of the Committee considered the first draft of the Committee Report (the Report) on the budget vote and deliberated upon it extensively. Major areas of the discussion included the following:
-The strategic and annual performance plans of entities relating to the Department.
-The content of the nine point plan, ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Transfer Pricing Public Hearings: Submissions from Department of Trade and Industry, Alternative Information Development Centre, SA Mining Development Centre, Mr F Shivambu and Prof B Turok briefings
29 Apr 2015
The Committee continued with public hearings on transfer pricing, taking presentations from a number of institutions and individuals.
Mr F Shivambu, Prof. B Turok and representatives from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the ; the South African Mining Development Association (SAMDA) gave inputs on Transfer Pricing to the ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Tobacco Institute of South Africa & Chevron South Africa briefings on industry challenges & transformation
24 Apr 2015
The Tobacco Institute of South Africa and Chevron South Africa presented various issues pertaining to the tobacco and the petroleum industries within a changing economic climate in South Africa.
Tobacco Institute of South Africa (TISA) spoke about the trade in illicit cigarettes within South Africa; transformation efforts within the domestic ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications & Companies Tribunal on their Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
21 Apr 2015
The National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) strategy focus was on source inspections and to lock out non-compliant products before the products entered point of trade and ensure that NRCS was more efficient in regulating the market. Retail and distributor inspections were meant for intelligence gathering and to identify non-compliant ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Metrology Institute of South Africa on its Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
15 Apr 2015
The National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA) presented the Committee with its Strategic Plan 2015/16 – 2019/20 and Annual Performance Plan. NMISA played a key role in the establishment of measurement traceability and the international equivalence thereof, sitting at the interface between the national and international systems. The expanding ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) & National Credit Regulator (NCR) on their Strategic & Annual Performance Plans
14 Apr 2015
The National Credit Regulator (NCR) and the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) reported on their Strategic Plans 2015/16 – 2019/20 and Annual Performance Plans for 2015/16.
The CIPC said although customers demonstrated more than average satisfaction with CIPC, stakeholders were less satisfied with the CIPC across all attribute dimensions. ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
KwaZulu Natal Gambling Board status: KZN MEC for Finance briefing
27 Mar 2015
The MEC for Finance, KwaZulu Natal, with representatives also from the Department of Trade and Industry (dti), Provincial Treasury of KwaZulu Natal, and the Co-administrator of the National Gambling Board, gave input to the Committee on the matter of the KwaZulu Gambling Board, and briefly summarised the main issues in ...