Germany

Recent activities

27 October 2011 – German PWYP members issued a press release, Transparenz auch im EU-Rohstoffsektor following the EU Commission’s amendments to the Accounting and Transparency directives, which would oblige all listed, and large non-listed, extractive companies based in the EU to publish what they pay.

17 October 2011 – Publication of An interim balance of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in the Central African Region. A report commission by German members Bread for the World, Global Policy Forum and Misereor.

October 2011 – German churches published a report (auf Deutsch) on the need for coherence in Germany’s extractive policy and in support of Dodd-Frank and EU publication.

15 July 2011 – ONE Transparency International, Global Policy Forum, Misereor und Brot für die Welt – on the occasion of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to resource-rich countries in Africa – held a press conference to highlight the importance of transparency in the extractive sector.