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Trade, Industry and Competition
Localisation progress report; Sugar industry transformation report; Committee Annual Report
5 Dec 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry has paid particular attention to transformation in the sugar industry following complaints from sugar cane farmers about the state of the industry, which was aggravated at the time by the importation of sugar at extremely low prices. It was against that backdrop that ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Local public procurement in the transport industry: Department briefing; 1064 Locomotives contract: Transnet update
4 Dec 2018
The Chairperson announced that there were some changes to the programme because neither Prasa nor the Department of Transport were not available that week and so their reports on localisation would have to be rescheduled for the following year.
The Department of Trade and Industry briefed the Committee on local ...
Energy
Committee Reports: Draft IRP 2018 hearings; Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Amendment
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met to consider two important reports - amendments to the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) and the draft IRP 2018.
The Committee approved the amendments to CCPNM as it had received satisfactory responses regarding three concerns in raised in the previous meeting:
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: adoption; Industrial Policy Action Plan 2018/19; DTI Quarter 2 performance
21 Nov 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry presented a 10-Year Review of Industrial Policy and Action Plan and briefed the Committee on key focus areas for the year ahead. The Department requested the Committee to endorse the report so that the Plan could get support going ahead as there had been ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: consideration
20 Nov 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry briefed the Committee on the changes made to the National Gambling Amendment Bill following the deliberations in the Committee and the consideration of public comments. Some editorial corrections had also been made.
The Department had included issues relating to the quorum and how decisions ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill & Performer’s Protection Amendment Bill: adoption; National Gambling Amendment Bill: consideration
15 Nov 2018
In a packed agenda, the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry began with the formal consideration of the Copyright Amendment Bill. Clauses 1 to 38 were approved by the Committee but with a number of objections from the DA. Objections related to the resale of royalty rights, the transmission of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill & National Gambling Amendment Bill: consideration
14 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry addressed the final issues with the Performer’s Protection Amendment Bill before embarking on a reading for an in-principle agreement.
The technological protection measures had been inserted in the Bill but the definitions had not been inserted. Those definitions, taken from the Copyright Amendment ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: consideration of Legal Opinion
13 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry had had several concerns about the constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill, particularly in respect of the clauses that dealt with retrospectivity. The Senior Legal Advisor had recommended a phased in approach for implementation of the Bill with those clauses not being implemented ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill: consideration of submissions
8 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor on the public submissions on the Performer’s Protection Amendment Bill as well as its response to those inputs. The Department of Trade and Industry also presented its views on the public input.
There were no inputs on the proposed deletion ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations
7 Nov 2018
The intention of the meeting had been to review a legal opinion on the constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill and for the Senior Legal Advisor to take the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry through the Copyright Amendment Bill, clause by clause, for an in-principle agreement on each clause. ...