One year for implementation…
The final Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Codes of Good Practice have been published. Companies will be granted a one-year transitional period to align with and prepare for the implementation of the revised Codes.
Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies has stated that the amended codes are a “new beginning” aligned to government’s transformation ambitions and follow a period of much debate and which were earlier released in October last year.
The revised codes deliver a reduction of elements, from seven to five, within the generic scorecard, comprising ownership, skills development, enterprise and supplier development, management control and socioeconomic development, and changes to the points required for compliance.
Black ownership goes to 40%
The codes set the minimum requirement for ownership at 40% of net value, with skills development accounting for 40% of the total weighting points, and enterprise and supplier development required a sub-minimum requirement of 40% within each enterprise and supplier development element, namely preferential procurement, supplier development and enterprise development.
All companies, barring micro enterprises, will be required to comply with the five elements of the B-BBEE scorecard including all organs of state and public entities; and “natural or juristic persons who conduct a business, trade or profession in South Africa, which undertakes any economic activity with organs of state or public entities.”
There is an increased threshold in points required to achieve a better B-BBEE status and exempted micro enterprises have now a threshold of R10m and general companies, known as QSEs, have a range of R10m to R50m.
On the new enterprise and supplier development enterprises totalling 40 points, 23 points are required as black ownership majority. Procurement is down to 12 points, of which only five points relate to all suppliers with black economic empowerment credentials, three points to qualifying small enterprise suppliers and four points for exempt microenterprises with a 15% target each.
Commentators have pointed out that many companies acquire total, or at least most of their imported goods on international markets and this will place them a complete disadvantage. The amended codes outline in much more clarity that large companies are required to comply with all three priority scorecard elements – namely ownership, skills development and enterprise and supplier development.
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