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Trade, Industry and Competition
Export Credit Insurance Corporation Annual Report & Quarter 3 performance
19 Feb 2019
The Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa briefed the Portfolio Committee for the first time during the Fifth Parliament.
The Corporation began by explaining that, just after the Second World War, trade was perceived as a big issue driving the well-off nations and other countries sought ways and means ...
Police
Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill: NCOP amendments; Regulation of Gatherings Amendment Bill: deliberations
19 Feb 2019
The Committee met to be briefed on the Regulation of Gatherings Amendment Bill, a Private Member’s Bill sponsored by the FF+, Adv Alberts. The Parliamentary Legal Adviser outlined the process of the consideration of a Private Member’s Bill and the motion of desirability.
Adv Alberts briefed the Committee on the ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Post Brexit UK-SA trade relations; DTI Quarter 3 performance; National Consumer Commission audit findings
13 Feb 2019
The National Consumer Council briefed the Committee on its progress in dealing with the Auditor-General’s findings on the National Consumer Council 2017/18 Annual Report. The Consumer Council had received an unqualified audit report, although there had been 23 findings, of which 78% had been dealt with to date. Ten of ...
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
National Lotteries Commission Quarter 2 performance; NRCS LOAs & ICT modernisation
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the National Lottery Commission for a briefing on its Second Quarterly Report and for a briefing by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications.
The National Lottery Commission informed the Committee that technology was a problem as the Lottery Commission was 15 years behind in technology used ...
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
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
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. ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: consideration of submissions on additional clauses
31 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee Department of Trade and Industry was briefed on the Copyright Bill. The Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor and the Department of Trade and Industry focused on the responses by the public to the specific clauses that had been added or revised following the reports of the copyright experts. ...