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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
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
20 Mar 2018
The Subcommittee met briefly to formalise the items for which there was no consensus. These included:
• the right of the consumer to apply for credit during the suspension period
• prescription and constitutional concerns;
• reporting on reckless lending by both debt counsellors and credit providers;
• whether suspension ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
DTI 2018/9 Annual Performance Plan with Auditor-General input
20 Mar 2018
Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on its assessment and findings of the 2018/19 DTI Annual Performance Plan (APP). AGSA flagged certain indicators as misleading and those included:
• Number of companies assisted under Export Marketing and Investment Assistance (EMIA) in supporting value added exports (target: 823);
• ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Subcommittee on flagged clauses
15 Mar 2018
The Subcommittee continued from the previous day to consider flagged items that still required consensus in the 'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill. The following concers were considered:
• if the Tribunal member should exercise discretion when adjudicating an application or whether clear steps should be set out in the ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright & National Credit Amendment Bills: Subcommittee reports; Committee Report on Sugar Industry oversight
13 Mar 2018
Committee Reports available once adopted
The Portfolio Committee approved the additional nominees for the Copyright Amendment Bill technical panel and changes to its terms of reference and draft programme. The nominees are:
• Adv Joel Baloyi – nominated
• Ms Michele Woods – nominated
• Adv Ntsietso Mokitimi-Makhafola – nominated ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: deliberations
13 Mar 2018
The sub-committee on Trade and Industry invited the National Treasury and Eighty20 to deliberate on the ‘Debt Relief’ National Credit Amendment (NCA) Bill.
Treasury indicated that in total, borrowers who could qualify for debt review held over 16 million loans, of which 4.7 million (29%) were three months or more ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: Treasury on constitutionality & response to submissions
7 Mar 2018
The legal opinion sought by National Treasury on the constitutionality of the ‘Debt Relief’ National Credit Amendment Bill and its response to public submissions were presented. Senior counsel had advised the Committee to at the very least seriously consider the viability of existing debt relief mechanisms – ‘if needs be ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Minister on SONA/Budget implications for DTI; WTO meeting; 'Debt Relief' National Credit Amendment Bill: DTI response to submissions
6 Mar 2018
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies spoke about the State of the Nation Address as it relates to the DTI mandate. He was also asked by the Committee to comment on the outcomes of the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Meeting; SABS and the Eskom Inquiry, the African ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Localisation & Local Procurement Inquiry: bus procurement day 2
28 Feb 2018
The inquiry into the compliance with localisation and local public procurement policy for bus procurement continued for a second day - with presentations by bus building companies. The Chairperson explained that the inquiry was all about asking everyone to be patriotic and to work together. It was not about who ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Localisation & Local Procurement Inquiry: day 1
27 Feb 2018
Prior to the commencement of the inquiry into compliance with localisation and local public procurement policy for bus procurement, the Chairperson said that the Eskom inquiry had led to the discovery that a number of protocols had been ignored when the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) had tested coal ...