COVID-19 STATE OF DISASTER

 

• School contact sports were suspended on 19 May in a Department of Basic Education media statement to be confirmed by notice in the Government Gazette.

 

FISHING RIGHTS

 

• The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has called for public comment on documents emerging from Phase 1 of its socio-economic impact assessment of fishing rights allocation policies.

 

AGRICULTURE

 

• The deadline for public comment on farm planning regulations gazetted in December 2020 has been extended.

 

COMMUNICATIONS

 

• The deadline for public comment on draft mobile broadband services regulations gazetted in March has been extended.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL

 

• The deadline for public comment on draft norms and standards for the treatment of organic waste gazetted in March has been extended.

 

• The deadline for public comment on a draft revised national biodiversity framework released in March has been extended.

 

FINANCE

 

• The South African Reserve Bank is calling for input on a discussion paper proposing the characteristics, calibration and implementation period for loss-absorbing/’Flac’ instruments introduced in the 2020 Financial Sector Laws Amendment Bill now before Parliament.

 

TRADE, INDUSTRY AND COMPETITION

 

• A draft Green Paper on the advancement of new energy vehicles in South Africa has been released for comment.

 

• A practice note has been issued on discretionary collective enterprise ownership under the B-BBEE codes.

 

• Policy statements have been issued on:
  • competition
  •  trade, and
  • localisation.

 

MINING

 

• A draft mine closure strategy has been gazetted for public comment.

 

TRANSPORT

 

• Draft amendments to the 1998 cross-border road transport regulations have been gazetted for public content.

 

Prepared by Pam Saxby