Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI ) was a British authority for industry and commerce. It was founded in 1970 and was with some change by the year 2007. Duties and responsibilities of the Authority were on 18 June 2007 to the successor, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills divided.
History
Department of Trade and Industry 1970-1974
The Department of Trade and Industry was founded original in 1970 by the merger of the Board of Trade ( 1621-1970 ) and the Ministry of Technology ( Ministry of Technology ). The so- newly created Authority assumed the responsibility for the control of restrictive practices and mergers by the Department of Employment. The reason for the formation of the new department was in the desire to make British industry and trade internationally competitive, also and especially because of the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community ( EEC) in 1973.
Troubled times began. Continuous formation of new organizations and authorities with new and redistribution of responsibilities shaped the political and economic landscape. Almost 350 years it had given to the Board of Trade. In the now following 40 years, the political responsibility for Trade and Industry should be four times fundamentally reorganized.
In 1971 the Ministry of Aviation Supply (Ministry of Aviation support ) was dissolved. The civil aviation and the responsibility for the aerospace industry, including the British share of the European space program was handed over to the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry. On January 1, 1972, the authority of the British Export Board was established to support. Personnel of the Board with experts from the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was occupied. But in March, the Board was renamed the British Overseas Trade Board. On 8 January 1974, the Department of Energy was established. Thus, the DTI announced its jurisdiction from energy issues to the newly created authority.
Department of Trade 1974-1983
After the British general election in February 1974, the DTI was divided by the new government under Harold Wilson already on 5 March 1974 in three new authorities, the Department of Trade, the Department of Industry and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection.
The tasks that were left for the Department of Trade, were the trade policy and trade relations with overseas countries and trade with the EEC. The Department was given responsibility for the British Overseas Trade Board. In addition, the authority tasks that resulted from the legislation in relation to companies got. These included the insurance industry, the patent office, corporate civil aviation, the Navy and the ship transportation, newspaper and film industry, the sectors tourism, travel and hotel, as well as the responsibility for insolvency proceedings. After the British general election in May 1979, the new government dissolved under Margaret Thatcher in 1974, founded the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection back on and led his duties to the Department of Trade to.
Department of Trade and Industry 1983-2007
After the British general election in June 1983, the old government under Thatcher the Department of Trade and the Department of Industry led back together to the Department of Trade and Industry. On August 7, 1984 the Department was in control of the Radio Interference Service ( RIS), British Telecom, which was later renamed Radio Investigation Service (RIS ), transferred.
In 1990, the Department was completely reorganized and given a new structure. It was divided into the departments, Business Task Forces, Information Technology, Manufacturing Technology ( Manufacturing Technology ), Telecommunications and Posts, Economics, Market Intelligence and Statistics (economy, market intelligence, and statistics). The Patent Office, the Insolvency Service, Radio Communication and the National Engineering Laboratory ( National Technical Laboratory ) were given new legal positions. After the British general election in April 1992, the Department of Energy has been returned to the DTI.
In the remaining years to 2007, the DTI was restructured again, responsibilities to other authorities outsourced or taken over by others. Then took place in June 2007 by the outgoing Blair government the complete dissolution of the Department together with the Department for Education and Skills and the Better Regulation Executive.