Traduction de «Groupe de travail Minerais et métaux » (Français → Anglais) :

1. This Regulation sets up a Union system for supply chain due diligence that shall be mandatory in order to eradicate trading in minerals and metals by armed groups and security forces.

The Commission is engaged in two dialogues related to raw materials with China - with the NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission), a Metals Working Group and with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

for Anglo American: the exploration, mining, processing and supply of various natural resources such as platinum group metals, rough diamonds (solely through its existing shareholding in De Beers), copper, iron ore, metallurgical coal, nickel and thermal coal,

10. Asks the Commission to quickly present a legislative proposal for country-by-country reporting founded on the standards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and on Section 1502 of the Dodd Frank Act in the United States; recalls that this was proposed by the Committee on Development as a parliamentary priority within the framework of the structured dialogue on the Commission Work Plan for 2012; urges the Commission to include in its proposal a requirement that extractive companies report on sales and profits, on a country-by-country basis, as well as taxes and revenues, in order to discourage corruption and prevent tax avoidance; stresses that transparency, corporate social responsibility and a functioning admi ...[+++]nistration benefit both extracting companies and the societies of resource-rich developing countries; calls on the Commission to develop a legislative proposal equivalent to Section 1502 of the Dodd Frank act, which requires companies that source minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries to demonstrate the steps they are taking to ensure that their purchases of these minerals are not profiting armed groups which commit human rights abuses; in this connection, calls on the European Union and its Member States to bring pressure to bear on European companies operating in developing countries and to set an example of social responsibility and the promotion of decent work;

* Technical Working Groups on inter alia biomonitoring of children, dioxins, endocrine disrupters, heavy metals, indicators, consisting of relevant experts.

As early as September 1992, in its report on the mineral industry, the intergovernmental working group on the mineral industry identified five urgent issues necessitating government intervention. They were the following: first, stopping the erosion of Canadian producers' competitiveness in certain key sectors of mineral production, including copper and nickel; second, increasing reserves of base metals in Canada; third, finding new ideas and developing technology, policies and programs to make grassroots prospecting more efficient, so that new high calibre mineral deposits can be discovered, like the one at Louvicourt, close to Val d'O ...[+++]r; fourth, reversing the obvious trend among mining investors, including Canadian mining multinationals, of passing Canada over in favour of developing countries in Latin America, Asia, or the Pacific with rich resources; fifth, in general, implementing a policy and regulatory framework that is more conducive to maintaining the viability of the industry and stimulating investment in the exploration and development of minerals in Canada.