A proposed new law
governing perishable
exports is already meeting
with opposition from the
export community.
The department of
agriculture, forestry and
fisheries (Daff) has just
gazetted Notice 7 of 2016 of
January 15 inviting public
comments on its new Draft
Perishable Products Export
Control Bill, 2015.
The deadline for
submission of these written
comments to the CEO of the
Perishable Products Export
Control Board (PPECB) is
February 15.
In the gazette, Daff
minister Senzeni Zokwana
said that some of the key
amendments of the bill
included:
• Promotion of an orderly,
efficient and sustainable
cold chain for the export
of perishable products
from the Republic;
• Provision for the legal
framework for the
regulation and monitoring
of the cold chain;
• Introduction of a cold
chain information system
and data base;
• Promotion of broad
based black economic
empowerment by
black farmers, rural
communities and
exporters, and;
• Monitoring, evaluation,
assessment and reporting
on the cold chain.
It proved too early after
the bill’s release for FTW’s
search for exporters’
comments to bear much
fruit.
Mitchell Brooke, logistics
development manager of the
Citrus Growers’ Association
(CGA) – representing one
of SA’s major perishable
export businesses – told
FTW that the association
still had legal advisers
looking at the draft bill.
But at least one initial
reaction is that the draft
appears to be inadequate,
given the demands of the
current trading culture
around the world.
We also made contact
with other relevant parties
in the perishable export
industry, but none were
yet familiar with the
new draft bill. However,
any readers who have
studied it and have
comments available for
publication are invited to
send them to the editor
of FTW.
'Early days' for new perishable exports bill
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