European Partnership for Responsible Minerals
Budget
€17,535,981
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
6 FTE
EU Grants
€1,600,000
Mission & Goals
Promoting Responsible Producting of ASM minerals in highrisk areas Promoting Responsible Sourcing from ASM minerals coming from highrisk areas Linking responsible production and sourcing
EU Legislative Interests
The EPRM is set up as an accompanying measure to the following EU legislation: EU regulation: 2017/821 Conflict Minerals as mandated by the joint communication to teh EP and the Council on responsible sourcing of minerals of 5 March 2014 JOIN(2014)8Final https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/conflict-minerals-regulation/legal-texts-and-documents/ Main purpose of influencing is to ensure thatt EU legislation and policies give necesary attention to Artisanal and Small-scale mining due diligence as per the aforementionned joined communication also having regard to the impact of EU legislation in minerlas producing development countries.
Communication Activities
Participation in the Responsible Business Conduct working group hosted by MEP Heidi Hautala in June 2023. https://europeanpartnership-responsibleminerals.eu/
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Not Applicable
Organisation Members
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) The Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires Etrangères (MEAE) Intel Corporation Philips B.V. RMI Valcambi sa Fairphone HP Inc. NXP B.V. Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center (T.I.C.) International Tin Association Ltd Samsung Electronics IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries® Inforlandia S.A. Cisco Systems Inc. Teknoservice S.L. HannStar Display Corporation Siemens Energy Solev LuNa Smelter SHIFT GmbH Fairever GmbH Thomas Swan & Co Ltd BMW-Group Diakonia Solidaridad Pactworld IPIS ARM IMPACT Global Communities Responsible Sourcing Network Terre des Hommes International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) RED Social Population and Development Initiative International Women in Mining (IWiM) The Impact Facility The Worldbank Gold by Gold srl
Additional Information
EPRM is a MSI with funding of 3 national governments and EU. The funds cover a timeframe of 5 years up until 2025
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.