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PARTICIPANTS IMPACTED

WEIGHING ING & SCALE COMPANIE ANIES

• Product
• Repair
• Verification
• Software

IN HO HOUSE SE CORPOR ORATE E WEIGHING NG

• Product
• Repair
• Verification
• Software

VOLUME ME COMPANIES ANIES

• Product
• Repair
• Verification
• Software

THE NATIONAL WEIGHING ASSOCIATION

• Seeks to represent

esent all Pa Partic ticipa pant nts. s.

• Boar

ard d representati esentation

• n is allocat
• cated

ed as to one seat for:

• Verification
• Industrial Repair > 1 ton
• Scale Repair < 1 ton
• Product Importation and Distribution
• Software
• NWA is not there to represent just current parties accredited to verify

nor is voting based on number of verification officers.

• The hope is the NWA will evolve to become the NMA –i.e. include

Volume.

BBBEE PARTICIPANT TYPES

EME

<R10M Level IV

QSE

R10-50M ¾ Compliance

LARGE

>R50m 4/4 Compliance

2013 BBBEE CODE “RESHUFFLE”

• NUMBER

BER ?

• Verification?
• Repair?
• Product?
• Software?

EME

• NUMB

MBER ER ?

• Verification?
• Repair?
• Product?
• Software?

QSE

• NUMBER

BER ?

• Verification?
• Repair?
• Product?
• Software?

LARGE

THE REALITY OF THE METROLOGY ACT

• The

e Act t is is pa passed ed, the e de debat ate e is is o

• ver

er.

• South

th Afric ican met etrology

• logy pr

practi tice ces s wil ill now al alig ign wi n with gl global al stan anda dards ds.

• Consumer

umers s wil ill be b e bet etter er pr protect ected ed.

• Reg

egula lati tions

• ns now nee

eed d to be dr e drafted ed.

DRAFTING THE REGULATIONS – FOCUS AREAS

• Registration

gistration of Pa Partici ticipants pants

• Certif

tificati ication

• n of Repairer

airers

• Independ

penden ence e of Verif rific ication ation

• Approval

al of Softw tware are

REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS

• NWA suppor

ports ts this is 100%.

• Reason:

son:

• Helps control the quality of products sold.
• Helps control quality of repairers.
• Better protects the Consumer.

CERTIFICATION OF REPAIRERS

• NWA suppo

ports ts this s 100%: %:

• Reaso

son:

• Modern technology requires specific training
• Consumers need to know repairers are correctly trained
• Repairer’s staff need to be certified per product
• Register of “trained” repairer staff is needed.
• Trained “repairer” can be employed by either in house weighing

companies, equipment owners or scale and weighing companies.

PROTECTING THE CONSUMER

• The overridi

rriding ng princi nciple ple that t verif ific icati ation

• n should

ld be ind ndepen penden ent t of repair ir is accept pted. ed.

• Consid

siderat eratio ion n should uld be given n to the exten ent t that at the costs ts of implemen lementation tation out weigh gh the benefits. its.

• NWA belie

ieves es that at for weighing hing inst strumen ruments ts of <1 ton the e costs ts out t weigh gh the benefits. its.

“INDEPENDENCE EXEMPTION” FOR <1TON

• Theref

erefore

• re the

e NWA A belie ieves es that: t:

• The potential costs to the consumer of inaccuracy in < 1 ton

capacities are not that material in Rand values

• The requirement for verification and repair to be done by

independent parties should be waived.

• Participants that focus on the < 1 ton equipment to verify and

repair up to < 1 ton.

• No waiver to in house corporate weighing companies.

INDEPENDENCE REQUIRED FOR >1TON

• The NWA believes

s that: t:

• Volumes and values of goods weighed over instruments >1

ton are significant

• The potential costs to the consumer of inaccuracy in the >

1 ton capacities are material in Rand values.

• Therefore verification of > 1 ton instruments must be done

by participants independent of repair.

DEFINING VERIFICATION “INDEPENDENCE”

• NWA believes that the definition of “independence”

should mean:

• Separate legal entity
• No cross shareholdings with any repairer.
• No common directors with a any repairer
• Own offices.
• Own staff
• Own administration.

“INDEPENDECE COST” ARGUMENT VOID

• To the Equipment Owner the major cost of weighing is down

time, inaccuracy and administration.

• For > 1 ton equipment the added cost of having repairer

and verification split is not material.

• Example:
• 30 weighing’s per day of coal to 60T WB capacity

average volume 34 tons of coal = R150m per annum of product.

• Cost of “ verification independence” = 0.01% of

product sold. Significant cost?

APPROVAL OF SOFTWARE

• Software

are is a funda damen enta tal l componen mponent t of modern rn weighi hing ng systems ms.

• Software

are now include luded d in the comp mponen

• nent

t list of a what t makes es up a trad ade e approved ed weighing ing instrum rumen ent. t.

• No regulations exist in South Africa to specify how “software” is to be

approved. d.

• NWA

A proposes es that t the the approac

• ach

h taken en in the Europe

• pe or the USA

is followed ed and d that t work rk starts ts immedi diat ately ly on these standar ndards. s.

CLOSING REMARKS