Businerss Day logo, smaller.jpg Rob Davies sets up team to plan post-2020 road for automotive sector Linda Ensor, Business Day, Johannesburg, 9 May 2016 Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has established a team of technical experts to develop the post-2020 automotive master plan. The news will be well received by the motor industry, which has recently committed to significant investments in new plant and needs certainty on the road ahead after 2020, when the existing automotive development plan comes to an end. The industry has previously complained about a lack policy certainty. "The purpose of this work will be to ensure that in the context of long-term policy certainty, a post-2020 master plan will create a framework to secure even higher levels of investment and production; higher exports and localisation and employment," Mr Davies said at the launch of the eighth iteration of the Industrial Policy Action Plan (Ipap) in Benoni on Monday. The technical team is led by KwaZulu-Natal University Professor Justin Barnes and University of Cape Town School of Economics professor Antony Black, and includes a range of other industry and industrial policy experts from B&M Analysts, Trade and Industrial Policy Services (TIPS) and senior staff of the Department of Trade and Industry. "The mandate of the team is to examine the entire automotive sector and not just the existing automotive policy development plan, which means it will now include light, medium and heavy vehicles and motorcycles," Mr Davies said. He said the team would engage extensively with all stakeholders, including original equipment manufacturers, component suppliers and organised labour. It would report to an executive oversight reference committee chaired by the minister. The oversight committee will include Ford SA CEO Jeff Nemeth, Nissan MD and National Association of Automotive Manufacturers representative Mike Whitfield, National Association of Automotive Components and Allied Manufacturers' (Naacam) representatives Ken Manners and Dave Coffey, and representatives of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA. From: http://www.bdlive.co.za/business/trade/2016/05/09/rob-davies-sets-up-team-to -plan-post-2020-road-for-automotive-sector -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
