GREENLAND TO JOIN KIMBERLEY PROCESS, WORKING WITH THE EU
July 1st, 2013
GREENLAND has taken another step towards strengthening its mining regulatory controls by agreeing to participate in the Kimberley Process for certifying diamonds as untainted by war and civil strife. But the autonomous island - part of the Danish kingdom – will not handle this work alone. It will work through the European Union’s (EU) Kimberley certification controls. As Greenland is not part of the EU, the European Commission has proposed a special law that will integrate the island within European Kimberley controls. Assuming this is approved, the EU’s ...
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