The Portfolio Committee tabled a first report on an amended Protected Areas Bill to the National Assembly. The Portfolio Committee further reported that it disagreed with the Joint Tagging Mechanism's classification of the Bill, as a Bill to which section 75 of the Constitution applied. The first Report was published in the Announcements Tablings and Committee Reports, on 31 October 2013. The Chairperson also submitted the views of the Portfolio Committee, to the Joint Tagging Mechanism, on 31 October 2013, expressing the view that the Bill should have been tagged as a Bill to which section 76 of the Constitution applied and asked the Joint Tagging Mechanism to reconsider its classification.