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Trade, Industry and Competition
Local public procurement in the transport industry: Department briefing; 1064 Locomotives contract: Transnet update
4 Dec 2018
The Chairperson announced that there were some changes to the programme because neither Prasa nor the Department of Transport were not available that week and so their reports on localisation would have to be rescheduled for the following year.
The Department of Trade and Industry briefed the Committee on local ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Lotteries Commission Quarter 2 performance; NRCS LOAs & ICT modernisation
27 Nov 2018
The Committee met with the National Lottery Commission for a briefing on its Second Quarterly Report and for a briefing by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications.
The National Lottery Commission informed the Committee that technology was a problem as the Lottery Commission was 15 years behind in technology used ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
National Gambling Amendment Bill: adoption; Industrial Policy Action Plan 2018/19; DTI Quarter 2 performance
21 Nov 2018
The Department of Trade and Industry presented a 10-Year Review of Industrial Policy and Action Plan and briefed the Committee on key focus areas for the year ahead. The Department requested the Committee to endorse the report so that the Plan could get support going ahead as there had been ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill & Performer’s Protection Amendment Bill: adoption; National Gambling Amendment Bill: consideration
15 Nov 2018
In a packed agenda, the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry began with the formal consideration of the Copyright Amendment Bill. Clauses 1 to 38 were approved by the Committee but with a number of objections from the DA. Objections related to the resale of royalty rights, the transmission of ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Copyright Amendment Bill: consideration of Legal Opinion
13 Nov 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry had had several concerns about the constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill, particularly in respect of the clauses that dealt with retrospectivity. The Senior Legal Advisor had recommended a phased in approach for implementation of the Bill with those clauses not being implemented ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill: consideration of submissions
8 Nov 2018
The Committee was briefed by the Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor on the public submissions on the Performer’s Protection Amendment Bill as well as its response to those inputs. The Department of Trade and Industry also presented its views on the public input.
There were no inputs on the proposed deletion ...
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. ...