Mr Patrick George Atkinson

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Patrick George Atkinson

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • Economic Development Portfolio Committee on Economic Development outstanding work
    23 Jun 2015

    The Committee’s Content Advisor took Members through the five year strategic plan. He highlighted the priorities of the Committee; which included  increasing oversight functions, active monitoring of departmental priorities, issues of national state interventions in the economy as it relates to infrastructure implementation, basic efficiency and development of departments in ...

  • Economic Development Consideration of outstanding work: postponement of meeting
    17 Jun 2015

    A meeting was scheduled for 9:30am in an attempt to review the Committee’s outstanding work. Very few members arrived as scheduled (3 ANC members) and three other members arrived within 20 minutes of the stipulated time. The present committee members made frantic efforts to reach their colleagues with an aim ...

  • Economic Development Automotive sector: briefing by Economic Development Department & Department of Trade and Industry
    9 Jun 2015

    The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave the Committee a full breakdown of the participants in the South African motor vehicle industry. There were seven original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- Ford, Nissan and BMW (in Gauteng), Toyota (in Durban), Mercedes (in East London), General Motors (in Port Elizabeth) and ...

  • Economic Development Minister for Economic Development on Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) investment strategy
    2 Jun 2015

    Minister Ebrahim Patel said that the role of the IDC was important. Without the IDC, the economy would be worse off as the IDC’s level of investment was significant and moreover attracted private sector investments. The IDC used its investment portfolio to generate income to pay its overheads and to ...

  • Economic Development Competition Tribunal & International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) on their 2015/16 Annual Performance & Strategic Plans
    19 May 2015

    The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) gave a presentation to the Committee on its annual performance and strategic plans. It reported that there had been improvements in the internal controls and compliance-related matters over the recent past as evidenced by the clean audit that ITAC had obtained for the 2012/13 ...

  • Economic Development International Trade Administration Commission, Competition Tribunal & Competition Commission 2015 Strategic Plans
    28 Apr 2015

    Document awaited: Contributions to Employment Creating Growth through ITAC’s Instruments

    The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) made two presentations. The first was on its strategic and annual performance plans covering policy direction; legal frameworks; key strategic objectives performance areas and services; tariff investigations; trade remedy investigations; import and export control ...

  • Economic Development Industrial Development Corporation Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
    21 Apr 2015

    The IDC is going to maximise its impact with existing resources it has to increasingly lead industrial capacity development.

    The activities of the IDC are aligned to the programmes of the government that focus on driving increased economic activity in productive sectors and seeking to have a greater impact on ...

  • Economic Development Minister of Economic Development on their 2015/16 Strategic Plan
    14 Apr 2015

    The Committee heard a briefing by the Minister and Deputy Minister of Economic Development on the Department’s Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan.

    The Minister spent time outlining the context within which the Department operated before moving on to give details of the three programmes of the Department: Administration; Growth ...

  • Economic Development Economic Development Committee Programme; Oversight report; Capacity building workshop report
    17 Mar 2015

    The Committee met briefly to consider the programme for the year as well as the oversight reports from visits up until February and their Capacity Building Workshop Report. The matters were reviewed swiftly with minimal dissent and settled for further review.

    The Chairperson said the meeting was convened to consider ...

  • Economic Development Competition Commission on competition cases completed
    10 Mar 2015

    The Competition Commission briefed the Committee on its role in combating anti-competitive practices in South Africa over the past 15 years. It had been successful in identifying and taking action to address anti-competitive mergers and had prohibited certain business practices in different markets, including basic food products, industrial inputs important ...