The Parliament of Ghana has passed two bills; thus, the Air Navigation Services Agency Bill, 2020 and the Plant Variety Protection Bill, 2020.
The Air Navigation Services Agency Bill will set up the Air Navigation Services Agency to give air route administrations inside Ghana’s airspace and some other airspace inside the control of Ghana and assume control over the administration which is at present being performed by the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).
The foundation of the office will guarantee Ghana’s consistency with worldwide guidelines, the evasion of bargains in tasks, improve dynamic and forestall the distribution of flight data portraying the locale as dangerous.
It will likewise empower Ghana to have a high ground over its companions, as it won’t just improve administration conveyance in air route inside the Accra Flight Information Region yet besides manufacture limit with regards to consultancy in the sub-locale and different purviews.
The organization will give an ideal occasion to deliver route activity uphold over the world, prompting expanded income and propelling Ghana’s standing.
The Autonomy of the Agency
A report by Parliament’s Committee on Roads and Transport said it was significant that the office giving air route administrations be organized to work successfully as a controller and supplier of air route administrations.
It said to satisfy guidelines set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), it was important to have independent. It brought together establishments with perpetual satellite areas at common air terminals the nation over.
The organization will after the law has gotten Presidential consent, start full activities inside a half year following the exchange of resources and liabilities from the GCAA, just as the improvement of fundamental rules for its tasks.
The foundation of such a self-ruling organization will plainly isolate the capacities and duties between the controller and the specialist co-op, just as independent air route administrations from the guideline.
Protecting Rights of Plant Breeders
The Plant Variety Protection Bill, then again, will set up a legitimate system to ensure the privileges of raisers of new assortments of plants or plant groupings and advance the rearing of new assortments of plants in the nation.
It likewise tries to recognize the accomplishments of raisers of new assortments by making accessible to them selective rights based on a bunch of uniform and obviously characterized standards.
This, it is trusted, will advance the development of the seed business and protect the legal rights and interests of plant raisers.
The bill will, besides, control the creation, deal, promoting and commercial of new assortments.
“Under this system, persons who develop new, distinct, uniform and stable varieties of plants will be entitled to apply for the grant of an exclusive right to that variety,” the report said.
It further indicated that protection would be given for a period of 25 years and 20 years for plant breeder rights and all other species, respectively.
“During the period of protection, right holders will be empowered to authorise the use of the propagated material, subject to certain exceptions, in return for royalties. Additionally, right holders will be empowered to sue in the High Court in respect of any infringement of their rights,” it said.
The Air Navigation Services Agency Bill was presented to Parliament on October 20, this year, while the Plant Variety Protection Bill was laid on October 9, this year.
