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Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations on revised clauses
22 Aug 2018
As the Committee had had several meetings to discuss the public submissions and the response from the Department and the Committee, the Chairperson said it was time to consolidate the Committee’s position on the Copyright Amendment Bill. Despite her request for full attendance, there were still Members who were not ...
Energy
Fuel Price: Minister of Energy briefing; with Deputy Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee met with the Department of Energy (DoE) to discuss the country’s high fuel prices.
At the outset, the Minister was asked to explain why nobody from the DoE had attended the previous meeting. The Minister said this had been due to a miscommunication that the meeting had ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt Intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill; ITAC confidentiality request: legal opinion
15 Aug 2018
Parliamentary Legal Services had been requested to provide an opinion on whether the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa could present information on sugar tariffs in an open meeting of Parliament or whether it was a confidential matter and had to be closed to the public. Section 29 of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations
15 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry met to hear the completion of the report back by the Department of Trade and Industry on its responses to the public submissions on additional clauses in the Copyright Amendment Bill. In addition, the parliamentary Legal Advisor would be responding to the public ...
Energy
Fuel Price: Department of Energy briefing (postponed)
14 Aug 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Energy was supposed to receive a briefing from the Minister and the Department of Energy on the fuel price. The meeting was scheduled because there had been a lot of discussion in the public domain about the high fuel price and the impact it not only ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Tripartite Free Trade Agreement; NRCS ICT modernisation project
13 Jun 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry (Dti) came before the Committee to present on the ratification of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement, and to report on the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) information communication technology (ICT) modernisation project..
The Department said that South Africa had signed the Free Trade ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) delayed forensic audit of Gupta coal test
13 Jun 2018
The Committee meeting was a difficult, at times acrimonious, one that found itself engaged in matters that were not on the agenda and struggling to resolve any of the agenda items. The Chairman of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) Board, Mr Jeff Molobela, and the SABS CEO, Dr ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: consideration
5 Jun 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to attend to outstanding matters in the Copyright Amendment Bill. A Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor presented a matrix of clauses flagged for further attention. This provided an overview and refreshed Members’ understanding of matters that remained unresolved.
The Chairperson led the deliberations on all the flagged ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
‘Debt Intervention’ National Credit Amendment Bill: finalisation of outstanding decisions
23 May 2018
The Committee went through the ‘Debt Intervention’ National Credit Amendment Draft Bill clause by clause, and resolved all outstanding matters so that a final version of the Bill could be prepared by Legal Services and presented for voting in three weeks’ time after they had heard from the constitutional experts. ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
'Debt intervention' National Credit Amendment Bill: DTI Socio Economic Impact Assessment terms of reference; outstanding decisions
16 May 2018
The Department presented the revised terms of reference for the Socio Economic Impact Assessment Study (SEIAS) which it would outsource to be conducted over 16 weeks. The areas of focus will be:
- Total debt, consumer credit standings, extent of consumer over-indebtedness by race, gender, employment type, income level, geographical ...