Brexit talks may be rolling on, but the UK is still part of the EU for now. As such, London Mining Network has signed up to this new fact-sheet ‘We make the rules! How the EU intervenes in the fiscal policy of resource rich countries’, written by...
Following previous updates and activism on the issue of conflict minerals (see: EU agrees mandatory law on conflict minerals, but exemptions cause concern and Last chance to influence EU Conflict Minerals Regulation) the European Union Parliament has now officially...
The following is a summary attached of the E Comm report http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/mining/pdf/report_mining_waste.pdf (E Comm COM(2016) 553 Sept 2016 report to the European Parliament and European Council on on the implementation of Directive 2006/21/EC on...
The following are the record of the informal stakeholder consultation on the implementation of the European Mining Waste Directive that took place in the European Parliament. LMN’s Research Associate Richard Harkinson attended, and presented at the meeting:-...
The lengthy negotiations within the European Union (EU) over conflict minerals regulation have finally concluded, with the end of the tri-party (or trilogue) deliberations between the European Commission, European Parliament, and European Council. The next step should...