EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BACKS MINERALS TRACING LAW
December 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED plans for the European Union (EU) to work with the African Union (AU) on boosting the traceability of minerals shipped from Africa to Europe were welcomed yesterday (Dec 15) by the European Parliament. In a motion, the parliament praised an agreement struck between the EU and the AU in Tripoli, Libya, on November 30, at the third EU-Africa Summit. It commits the EU and the AU to regulatory reform and policy actions making the approval and operation of mining concessions in Africa more transparent. This follows years of criticism of ...
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