No.6/2017 NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS COMMISSION Cap.l4:36 "Commissioner" means a member of the Commission, including the Chairperson and deputy Chairperson; "competitiveness" means the ability of a firm or a nation to offer products and services that meet the quality standards of local and world markets at prices that provide adequate return on the resources employed or consumed in producing them; "consumer" means a purchaser of a good or service in retail and includes an end user in the distribution chain of goods and services; "cost driver" means the unit of an activity that causes the change in activity's cost; "cost of doing business" means an objective measure of the impact of business regulations, and of monetary and non-monetary costs incurred by firms doing business or intending to do business in Zimbabwe which can also be measured as an index by global organisations such as the World Bank and World Economic Forum; "ease of doing business" means a measure of how ease or difficult it is to start or operate a business in a country and this measure can be in the form of an index measured and or provided by organisations such as World Bank and World Economic Forum; "Executive Director" means Executive director of the Commission appointed in terms of section I 0; "financial year", in relation to the Commission, means the period of twelve months ending on the 31st December; "levy" means an amount such as a tax or any other compulsory payment collected by a legal authority; "local industry" means the persons who in Zimbabwe are engaged in the business of producing or providing, otherwise than by importation, goods or services for consumption in or export from Zimbabwe, and includes any class of such persons; "Minister" means the Minister of Industry and Commerce or any other Minister to whom the President may, from time to time, assign the administration of this Act; "premises" includes land, or any building, structure, vehicle, ship, boat, vessel, aircraft or container; "price" includes(a) a charge of any description; or (b) in relation to goods or services, any pecuniary benefit, whether direct or indirect, received by a person for or in connection with the supply by the person of the goods or services; "rates" means a form of tax levied on property; "regulatory authority" means an entity established in terms of an enactment responsible for regulating an industry; "regulatory costs" means the costs involved when complying with the regulatory requirements; "Standing Inter-Ministerial Cabinet Committee" means a committee of Ministers apppinted by the Cabinet to deal with the issues of the cost and the ease of doing business and competitiveness; "tariff' means a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports. 114