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NCOP Economic and Business Development
Infrastructure Development Bill [B49B-2013]: Negotiating Mandates
17 Mar 2014
The Select Committee met to consider the negotiating mandates from the provinces on the Infrastructure Development Bill. However, most of the proceedings were spent arguing over the method for addressing the mandates from each province. In the end, all the provinces – with the exception of the Western Cape – ...
NCOP Economic and Business Development
Rollout of National Solar Water Heater Programme: briefing by Department of Energy
24 Feb 2014
The Department of Energy (DoE) met with the Select Committee on Economic Development to brief the Committee on the National Solar Water Heater Programme. The installation of solar water heaters (SWHs) was announced in 2009 and over the current medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) had remained government’s short-term target. In ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Legal Metrology Bill: Negotiating Mandates
18 Feb 2014
The Committee voted on the Legal Metrology Bill. The only concerns on the Bill related to the lack of inspectors, the impact of the lack of inspectors on implementation and monitoring, the need for standardisation markings and noncompliant products. These concerns were then responded to by the team of legal ...
NCOP Trade & Industry, Economic Development, Small Business, Tourism, Employment & Labour
Special Economic Zones Bill [B3B-2013]: Negotiating Mandates
4 Feb 2014
The Committee considered final negotiating mandates from all nine provinces. The provinces were unanimous in their support for the Bill. The Free State Province however had a typing error in its final negotiating mandate and the Committee agreed for it to be corrected prior to its submission to the House. ...
Finance Standing Committee
Financial Management of Parliament Amendment Bill: adoption
28 Jan 2014
The Committee heard a short briefing from the parliamentary legal advisor on the outstanding matters before finalsing the Amendment Bill
The flagged matters were that the executive authority should not be part of the oversight committee; that Parliament could not pass its own budget without the oversight mechanism being established ...