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Trade, Industry and Competition
SABS administration; National Credit Amendment Bill: outstanding clauses
29 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee met with the recently appointed Administrators of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) for a briefing on the current state of affairs at SABS. The Committee then completed the clause-by-clause reading of the National Credit Amendment Act.
The Minister of Trade and Industry had appointed three ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: clause-by-clause reading
28 Aug 2018
Before the clause-by-clause reading could begin, the Senior Legal Advisor took the Committee through proposed changes by National Treasury:
• Clause 19: Rather than an outright statement which would make credit life insurance mandatory, it should be made subject to regulations being prescribed. It was better to give flexibility to ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations on revised clauses
22 Aug 2018
As the Committee had had several meetings to discuss the public submissions and the response from the Department and the Committee, the Chairperson said it was time to consolidate the Committee’s position on the Copyright Amendment Bill. Despite her request for full attendance, there were still Members who were not ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: response to public submissions
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry, assisted by a Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor, led the Committee through some of the challenges that had surfaced during the analysis of the wide-ranging public responses to the advertisement of new clauses for comment in the Copyright Amendment Bill.
Due to a number of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Credit Amendment Bill; Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry highlighted the potential opportunities and threats of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area, and suggested ways in which such threats could be mitigated. The presentation was intended to address concerns previously raised by Committee Members. The briefing also focused on implementation of the agreement, ...
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
Copyright Amendment Bill; Committee Reports on Sugar Industry & UK Study Tour Report
14 Jun 2018
Call for Comment on Specific Clauses
The Committee completed deliberations on the current draft of the Copyright Amendment Bill and specific clauses of the 14 June Bill would be advertised for public comment until 9 July 2018.
Three main areas had been flagged the previous week on the Copyright Amendment ...
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: flagged clauses
7 Jun 2018
The Committee began with a recap on the clauses in the Copyright Amendment Bill that had been resolved in the previous meeting and those that still required resolution. Clauses had not been resolved either because a legal opinion was required, the Committee had requested further information or examples of international ...