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Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: two-phase proposal; "Debt Intervention" National Credit Amendment Bill: new draft
8 May 2018
Copyright Amendment Bill:
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) presented its proposals for a two-phase approach to amending the Copyright Act: Phase 1 would focus on the Copyright Review Commission recommendations.
DTI proposes retaining the Act’s fair dealing doctrine for now due to the contestations and competing views about ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: Subcommittee engagement with DTI on flagged clauses
2 May 2018
The Subcommittee went through the flagged clauses referred to it by the Portfolio Committee:
The Clause 2 concerns were resolved. A Member asked about the academic environment because authors employed by universities had no control over the work they produced and secondly, disabled people are seemingly not catered for. These ...
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 ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill sub-committee: Department report-back on priorities & way forward
24 Apr 2018
Document awaited:
The Department highlighted priorities and challenges in the Copyright Amendment Bill as requested the previous week. Some of the priority areas outlined included:
- the non-payment of royalties
- strengthening and capacitating the Tribunal;
- fair use or fair dealing, DTI proposed the former
- low royalty rate ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Sugar Industry intervention report by DTI
24 Apr 2018
Documents handed out: Committee Report on Sugar Industry [available under Tabled Committee Reports once published]
The Committee discussed its Committee Report on Sugar Industry oversight visit. In discussion Members said these matters needed attention:
- imports and low import tariffs
- final price determination which happened in March now with a ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
B-BBEE Commission & DTI Annual Performance Plan
18 Apr 2018
Documemts handed out: Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003 as Amended by Act 46 of 2013 (Booklet)
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry dealt with two matters in the meeting: The Strategic Plan for the B-BBEE Commission 2018/19 - 2020/21 and a follow-up engagement on the 2018/19 ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: subcommittee deliberations
18 Apr 2018
The subcommittee met to address some of the outstanding issues to be included in the Copyright Bill. The pace of the draft legislation had been extremely slow, especially considering the fact that the legislation was seeking to address recommendations made by the Farlam Copyright Review Commission presented in 2012.
The ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Election of an Acting Chairperson
17 Apr 2018
The Committee met to elect an acting chairperson to preside over the committee meetings until the chairperson returns from her overseas trip. Mr A Williams (ANC) was elected as acting chairperson.
Trade, Industry and Competition
South African National Accreditation System & National Metrology Institute of South Africa 2018/19 Annual Performance Plan
27 Mar 2018
SANAS presented its strategic and annual performance plan (APP), and outlined its risk register as well as actions to improve management of the risks. In order to improve operational efficiency, SANAS would develop and implement a management development strategy, expand its assessor pool, and automate the accreditation processes. These actions ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
22 Mar 2018
Members considered and deliberated further on the outstanding issues that Members still needed to reach consensus on. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor led the Members through the clauses, and outlined the following clauses for deliberations: