COMMUNICATIONS

• A new regulatory code has been gazetted on basic standards to be met in facilitating access for the hearing and/or visually impaired to electronic communications and television broadcasting services.

FINANCE

• The South African Reserve Bank has called for public comment on a discussion document outlining ‘proposed requirements for funding in resolution’.

TRADE, INDUSTRY AND COMPETITION

• The Competition Commission has published:
  • its final report on a market inquiry into land based public passenger transport, and
  • the terms of reference for a market inquiry into online intermediation platform services, with guidelines for participating.
• The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition has clarified the implications for B-BBEE of a November 2020 Supreme Court of Appeal ruling declaring the 2017 preferential procurement policy framework regulations invalid.

JUSTICE

• The Legal Practice Council has introduced a rule on the requirements to be met when electronic accounting records or files are ‘hosted offsite’.
• The deadline by which the commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture, corruption and fraud in the public sector should complete its work has been extended.

ENVIRONMENT

• The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has explained the rationale behind recent amendments to the integrated environmental management plan for square kilometre array construction phase one.
• The regulations on plastic carrier and flat bags have been amended.

MINING

• A guidance note on HIV management and control was gazetted on Friday.
• Guidelines have been published on compiling a mandatory code of practice for preventing flammable gas explosions in non-coal mines.

 

Prepared by Pam Saxby