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
National Gambling Amendment Bill: deliberations
6 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to discuss the National Gambling Amendment Bill. Members focused on the two substantive issues that had arisen during the public hearings. The first issue was the introduction of a regulator to replace the board in the National Gambling Board and the question of the powers of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: consideration
1 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee Department of Trade and Industry met to finalise additions, amendments and deletions to the Copyright Amendment Bill following the discussion on the fourth round of public consultation and the final review of the Bill by the parliamentary Legal Advisor and the team from the Department of Trade ...
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. ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: DTI response to submissions
30 Oct 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry briefed the Portfolio Committee on its responses to the written and oral public submissions on the National Gambling Amendment Bill. The Department outlined the context of amending the National Gambling Act (NGA) and the context of South Africa and gambling, expressing particular concern that ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: public hearings day 1
24 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Development held public hearings on the National Gambling Amendment Bill. Originally, the Bill was quite broad but the week before the hearings, following a Committee decision, a more focused version of the Bill had been distributed to presenters. Consequently, several of the presenters discussed ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Incentive Programme Review: briefing
23 Oct 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry presented a Review Report of the Incentive Programme for the past five years from 2013/14 to 2017/18. The incentive package had doubled in the five years under review.
The Department reported that manufacturing in South Africa offered 1.7 million jobs directly but indirectly 5.4 ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill: proposed amendments & call for comment; BRRR
17 Oct 2018
Comment: Additional Clauses in Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill
The Parliament Legal Advisor went through the proposed Portfolio Committee amendments – including several new clauses – after the legal teams had considered the public comments stemming from the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill and those applicable from the Copyright Amendment Bill and ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill technical expert input; National Gambling Amendment Bill
16 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry had appointed a panel of technical experts on copyright to review the Copyright Amendment Bill. The intention was that the panel would look at the use of technical terminology used, whether the terminology was aligned to the international treaties, and constitutional matters. The ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
African Continental Free Trade Area; SADC Protocol on Finance and Investment; Copyright Amendment Bill: clauses to be advertised; BRRR
11 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry was pleased to receive a briefing by the Department of Trade and Industry on the Ratification of the Agreement Amending Annex 1 (Co-operation on Investment) of the SADC Protocol on Finance and Investment (FIP). The Department sought to obtain ...