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Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: response to public submissions
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry, assisted by a Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor, led the Committee through some of the challenges that had surfaced during the analysis of the wide-ranging public responses to the advertisement of new clauses for comment in the Copyright Amendment Bill.
Due to a number of ...
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
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 ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund Turnaround Plan; Horse Racing Industry investigation
13 Jun 2018
The Committee’s delegation to the recent International Labour Conference in Geneva provided feedback on their participation, and said it would provide full reports on the proceedings when they had been compiled. However, it was worth noting that the committees that played a major role had included representatives of African countries, ...
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
Copyright Amendment Bill: flagged clauses
7 Jun 2018
The Committee began with a recap on the clauses in the Copyright Amendment Bill that had been resolved in the previous meeting and those that still required resolution. Clauses had not been resolved either because a legal opinion was required, the Committee had requested further information or examples of international ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: DTI & CIPC response on flagged clauses
6 Jun 2018
The Portfolio Committee met to resolve some of the outstanding policy issues in the Copyright Amendment Bill. Parliamentary Legal Services reported on information received from a Committee copyright consultant on ‘‘fair use’’ and ‘‘fair dealing’’. The consultant explained that the difference between the two was the openness of the ‘‘‘fair ...
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
Copyright Amendment Bill: DTI briefing on Bill and DAC & DTI positions
31 May 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave a briefing on the views of DTI and the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) on key clauses of the Bill. The Parliamentary Legal Advisor also provided legal advice so the Committee could make its independent decisions on the Bill.
Clauses 2, ...