In the Government Gazette of 03 June 2016 the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) announced that on 17 May 2016 the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries had received a request from the South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) for the continuation of statutory measures (levies, records & returns and registration) on table grapes produced, inspected and passed for export, in terms of the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act (MAP Act), 1996. The current statutory measures will expire on 31 October 2016. The deadline for comment is 24 June 2016.
In the Government Gazette of 27 May 2016 the NAMC published a notice for statutory measures for the levy of winter cereal (wheat and barley); table olives; table grapes; pears in respect of the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act for which comment is due on 10 June 2016.