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Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000)

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Description submitted in terms of section 15(1)

Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Form D : Automatically available records and access to such records

 

FORM D

 

AUTOMATICALLY AVAILABLE RECORDS AND ACCESS TO SUCH RECORDS:

(Section 15 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No. 2 of 2000))

[Regulation 5A]

 

DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORY OF RECORDS AUTOMATICALLY AVAILABLE IN TERMS OF SECTION 15(1)(a) OF THE PROMOTION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT, 2000

MANNER OF ACCESS TO RECORDS

(e.g. website)  (SECTION 15(1)(b))

FOR INSPECTION IN TERMS OF SECTION 15(1)(a)(i):
1. All DAFF Acts

Organisational Structure of DAFF

Website of DAFF at www.daff.gov.za

Website of DAFF at www.daff.gov.za

Agriculture

 

2. Plant Breeders' Rights Act, 1976
• Inspection of the Registrar of the Plant Breeders' Rights

 

Plant Breeders' Rights Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS) reports

 

Free of charge at the Office of the Registrar of the Plant Breeders Rights Act at telephone number (012) 319-6096 or e -mail [email protected], Address:

Harvest House 255, 30 Hamilton Street

Can be obtained by other countries' PBR Authorities from the Office of the Registrar through enquiry to the Registrar: PBR Act.

Contact number (012) 319 6096 or e -mail at [email protected],
3. Plant Improvement Act, 1976
• Inspection of a document submitted to the Registrar  in terms of the Plant Improvement Act, 1976

Access can be obtained upon payment of the prescribed fee, through enquiry to the Registrar of the Plant Improvement Act, 1976 at JoanS @daff.gov.za or tel. nr (012) 319 -6034
4. Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act No. 52 of 1998)
• Registration of semen collectors, inseminators, embryo transferor import agents, reproduction centres, donor animals, animal breeders' societies and registering authorities which have been registered and approved as such. Fees for this service are annually gazetted
• List of all breeds registered in terms of the above mentioned Act, at payment of the prescribed fee

Can be obtained through written or telephonic request to the Director: Animal Production at e -mail [email protected] or tel. nr (012) 319 -7597

 

 

Can be obtained through written or telephonic request to the Director: Animal Production at e -mail [email protected] or tel. nr (012) 319 -7597
5. Genetically Modified Organisms Act, 1997 (Act No. 15 of 1997)
• Permit application forms
• Executive Council minutes
• Permit registers
• Standard Operating Procedures with regard to regulation 2(2) of the GMO Act
• Policy on GMO consignment in transit
• Guideline for submission of time extension requests for current permits issued under the GMO Act
• List of GMO events currently approved in South Africa
• Laboratories registered in terms of the GMO Act for issuance of the GMO status certificates

 

Can be obtained through departmental website: www.daff.gov.za /Branches /Agricultural Production -Health and Food Safety /Genetic Resources /Biosafety or through enquiry to the Registrar of the GMO Act (012) 319 -6382
6. Agricultural Pests Act, 1983 (Act No. 36 of 1983)
• Issuing of import permits for plants, plant products and other regulated articles in terms of the Agricultural Pests Act

Information can be assessed by clients/importers via the email: [email protected]; Tel (012) 319 -6102/6130/6396/6207 or Fax: (012) 3196370

 

Fees are applicable
7. Agricultural Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No. 35 of 1984) and Meat Safety Act (Act No. 40 of 2000)
• Issuing of Veterinary Imports Permits in terms of the above mentioned two Acts)

Information can be assessed by clients/importers via the email: [email protected]; Tel (012) 319 -7476/7461/7533/7503/7632/7406/7500 or Fax: (012) 329892

Fees are applicable
8. Directorate: Marketing
• Integrated marketing strategy for agriculture, forestry and fisheries
• Annual Report of the Steering Committee on revitalization of fresh produce markets (Project rebirth).
• Public notices for preferential market access in terms of WTO, EPA and AGOA Trade Agreements.
• Application forms for preferential market permits.
• Fresh Produce Market Monitor.
• Commodity Value Chain Analysis Reports

 

The information is accessible on the DAFF website: vww.daff.gov.za.

 

Electronic copies also available email:PA.dm @daff.gov.za

FOR PURCHASING IN TERMS OF SECTION 15(1)(a)(ii):

Annual Report on Commercial Timber Resources and Primary Roundwood Processing in South Africa

Resource Centre Forestry, Hamilton Street 110, Room 414

FOR COPYING IN TERMS OF SECTION 15(1)(a)(ii):

Information on Info Parks and Publications of DAFF which are respectively free of charge and those that can be bought but are available from the Agricultural Resources Centre: Directorate: Knowledge and Information Management tel. nr. (012) 319 -7141 Nina van der Merwe or on the DAFF website www.daff.gov.za

Plant Breeders' Right, 1976

 

A copy of particulars in the register of a document submitted to the Registrar in connection with an application for the grant of a plant breeder's right (PBR)

 

Can be obtained through written or telephonic request or email correspondence from the Office of the Registrar of the PBR Act. Contact number (012) 319 -6906 or e-mail at [email protected]. Hard copy obtainable upon payment of prescribed fees

Plant Breeders' Right, 1976

 

— Plant Variety Journals which include:
• List of approved and rejected PBR's
• List of transfers of PBR'S
• List of demoninations, including alterations thereof
• List of surrenders of PBR's
• List of withdrawals PBR's
• List of applicants and agents
— Variety description in terms of a variety examined, including coloured illustrations thereof

PVJs can be obtained from the DAFF website: www.daff.gov.za /BRANCHES /APHFS /Genetic Resources/Plant Breeders' Rights

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can be obtained through written or telephonic request or email correspondence from the Office of the Registrar of the PBR Act. Contact number (012) 319 -6906 or e-mail at [email protected].

Plant Improvement Act, 1976

 

• Varietal lists for seed crops, fruit crops and potato

 

 

 

 

 

• Application for a copy of a document submitted to the registrar in terms of the Plant Improvement Act, 1976

 

 

• DUS test reports ito the Plant Improvement Act

 

 

 

 

Varietal lists can be obtained from the DAFF website www.daff.gov.za/daffweb3/Branches/Agricultural-Production-Health and Food -Safety /Plant -ProductionNariety Listing or from the Registrar of Plant Improvement at JoanS @daff.gov.za or tel. no. (012) 319 -6034.

 

Access can be obtained upon payment of the prescribed fee, through enquiry to the Registrar of the Plant Improvement Act, 1976, at JoanS @daff.gov.za or tel. nr. (012) 319 -6034

 

Free of charge. Requests to be submitted to Registrar of the Plant Improvement Act, 1976, at JoanS @daff.gov.za or tel. nr. (012) 319 -6034

Forestry

 

From the body free of charge—

 

• State of the Forests (SOF)
• Forest Sector Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Charter
• White paper on Sustainable Forest Development in SA
• Policy regarding access to State Forests
• Compliance and Enforcement Policy
• The Participatory Forestry Management Policy and Strategy, 2004
• Policy on the formation of Umbrella Fire Protection Associates
• Policy on exemptions from the duty to prepare and maintain firebreaks in terms of section 14 of the National Veld and Forest Fire Act
• Policy Principles and Guidelines for Control of Development Affecting Natural Resources
• Woodland Strategy Framework, June 2005
• Urban Greening Strategy, 2005
• List of Principle Criteria, Indicators & Standards (guidelines for Sustainable Forest Management)
• User guide to the Forest Sector Board-Based Black Economic Empowerment Charter
• List of protected trees species under the National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998)
• List of particular trees and particular groups of trees "Champion Trees" under section 12(1) and (B) of the National Forests Act, 1998 (Act No. 84 of 1998)
• Genisis Report Part I The contribution, costs and development opportunities of the Forests, Timbers, Pulp and Paper Industries
• Genisis Report Part II South African Forestry Industry Market Analysis 2005 Fire Protection Association Annual Report 2009/2010
• Forestry Indaba Report 2009 (Proceedings)
• The revised veldfire risk classification (veldfire risk assessment map) of South Africa, 2010
• Key Issues Paper on Forest Enterprise Development (FED), January 2005
• A Strategy Framework to support Forest Enterprise Development (FED)in South Africa, August 2005
• South African Forestry Industry Market Analysis, 2005
• Report on the Assessment of the Gauteng Firewood Market and the Origin of Protected Tree Firewood Products sold, 2007
• Eastern Cape Forest Sector Profile
• Forestry Books and Journals
• Forestry and Fire awareness materials
• Forestry maps
• Key Issues on Forestry Enterprise Development (FED) January, 2005
• Historical review of the Forestry Development in South Africa
• Study of supply and demand of Industrial Roundwood in South Africa
• Study and supply of softwood sawlog and sawn timber in South Africa
• Logging reference 1, 2, 3
• Charcoal production, forestry and sub-sector studies
• Forest Mushroom Sector Analysis
• National, Forest Sector Research and Development Strategy
• Green Heritage (Trees Forests and Woodlands of South Africa
• Integrated National Forest Protection Strategy
• Agroforestry strategy framework for South Africa March 2017
• A guideline for rural communities to be successful in the forest sector: running a charcoal business
• A guideline for rural communities to be successful in the forest sector: running a beekeeping business
• A guideline for rural communities to be successful in the forest sector: running a planning, managing people and your business
• A guideline for rural communities to be successful in the forest sector: running a tree growing business
• A guideline for rural communities to be successful in the forest sector: running a sawmill business
• The determination of forestry transport requirements in relation to transport development plans at National, Provincial and Municipal Area 2012
• National Forest Sector Research and Development Strategy 2012

Most of these documents are available on the Departmental Website: www.daff.gov.za

Hard copies are obtainable from the National Office: Forestry and Natural Resources Management Branch to the National Forestry Office at e- mail:LihleMadaff.gov.za

 

Forestry books and journals are also accessible from the Departmental Library Resource Centre.

There is limited access to certain material archived in the electronic resource centre linked to the website:

http://www.daff.gov.za/daffweb3/Resource-Centre

 

Fisheries Management

 
• Chief Directorate: Aquaculture & Economic Development:

—Marine Aquaculture Bill

—Phase 1 and 2 Socio- Economic Impact Analysis on Marine Aquaculture Bill

—Marine permit application forms and requirements

—Aquaculture guidelines

• Chief Directorate: Monitoring, Control & surveillance:

Standard Operating Procedures for Honorary Marine Conservation Inspectors.

• Chief Directorate: Marine Resources Management:

MLRA and Regulations

—General Published Reasons on the Decision for the allocation of fishing rights (Fishing Rights Allocation Processes)

—Regulation 5(3) Reports

—Registers on rights and/or exemptions granted

—Permit Application forms and requirements

—Permit conditions

—Summaries of TAC and TAE per sector

—Transfer of Fishing Right application forms and requirements

—Performance reviews of fisheries sectors

—Score sheets

—Sector specific fishery policies

—General Policy on the Allocation and

—Management of Commercial Fishing Rights

—Policy for the Transfer of Commercial Fishing Rights

—Policy for the Small -Scale Fisheries Sector in South Africa

—A guide to the small scale fisheries sector (4 coastal languages)

—List of recognised small scale fishers in South Africa

—Phase 1 and 2 Socio- Economic Impact Analysis on the Policy for the Small-Scale Fisheries Sector in South Africa

—Phase 1 Socio- Economic Impact Analysis on the General Policy for the Allocation of Fishing Rights

• Chief Directorate: Fisheries Research & Development

—Scientific Working Group documents and reports that do not relate to the current years TAC/TAE recommendation Published scientific papers and reports

—State of South Africa's Marine Resources

—Policy for the Establishment and Management of New Fisheries in South Africa

• Chief Directorate: Financial Management (MLRF)

—Financial Statements

—Government gazette in respect of Application and Grant of Right fees

—Government Gazette in respect of fees (e.g.: permit, levy and licences)

—Policy on Handling of Confiscated Abalone

• Chief Directorate: Fisheries Operations Support

—Strategic Plans

—Annual Report MLRF

—Human resource data

—Recreational fishing brochure

 

For records of Fisheries Management

ZugeraG @daff.gov.za tel. nr. (021) 402 -3443 or fax 086 5729161 can be contacted to gain access to these services. In certain instances these documents are available free of charge on the Departmental website.