EUROPEAN COMMISSION RELEASES VETTING PROCEDURE FOR CONFLICT MINERAL DUE DILIGENCE AGENCIES
March 1st, 2019
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published a secondary regulation that lays down how it will assess and authorise conflict mineral due diligence schemes. They can be used by European Union (EU) metal importers to demonstrate they have not sourced product from mines and smelters associated with human rights abuses.
This new regulation (EU) 2019/429 ‘on methodology and criteria for the assessment and recognition of supply chain due diligence schemes concerning tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold’ dovetails with regulation (EU) 2017/821 on supply chain due ...
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