Trade, Industry and Competition
National Credit Amendment Bill; Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry highlighted the potential opportunities and threats of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area, and suggested ways in which such threats could be mitigated. The presentation was intended to address concerns previously raised by Committee Members. The briefing also focused on implementation of the agreement, ...
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 ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: deliberations
14 Aug 2018
The Committee met to receive information on the 50 public submissions on the additional clauses inserted in the Copyright Amendment Bill. The Department of Trade and Industry presented its responses to issues raised in the submissions.
The Committee had not expected the volume of comment that the clauses had attracted ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
‘Debt Intervention’ National Credit Amendment Bill: editing changes
14 Aug 2018
Documents handed out: National Credit Amendment Bill: editing changes (awaited)
The Committee met to deliberate on final details in the National Credit Amendment Bill before instructing the Senior Legal Advisor to prepare the final draft for clause-by-clause deliberations.
The Chairperson addressed the matter of the Employment Creation Fund raised at ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Credit Amendment Bill: response to submissions & legal opinion & deliberations
31 Jul 2018
Members of the Trade and Industry Committee returned to Parliament during the constituency period to deal with the pressing matter of debt relief legislation.
Advocate Charmaine van der Merwe, Parliamentary Senior Legal Advisor, presented a legal opinion from Senior Counsel on three clauses in the National Credit Amendment Bill on ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill; Committee Reports on Sugar Industry & UK Study Tour Report
14 Jun 2018
Call for Comment on Specific Clauses
The Committee completed deliberations on the current draft of the Copyright Amendment Bill and specific clauses of the 14 June Bill would be advertised for public comment until 9 July 2018.
Three main areas had been flagged the previous week on the Copyright Amendment ...
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
Steel & Sugar Tariffs: DTI, ITAC, SARS; Sugar Industry; Space activities
12 Jun 2018
The Portfolio Committee was becoming increasingly concerned about steel and sugar tariffs. Members wanted information about reports that there had been a period of duty-free sugar imports and they were seeking answers to that question as well as the implementation of new tariffs to assist the struggling sugar industry as ...