Spain

La industria extractiva debe “mejorar su nivel de transparencia informativa” de acuerdo con nuevos estándares voluntarios que se adopten según Ian Gary, experto de Oxfam América y miembro de la organización Publish What you Pay.

Para Gary, que participó año ayer en unas jornadas en el Congreso de los diputados, de lo que se trata es “desvelar el dinero” que se surge de estas industrias y así fomentar un debate sobre como se usa el mismo, según manifestó a Servimedia.

El representante de Oxfam remarcó la necesidad de que los estados, oraganismos internacionales y entidades finan

As part of an intense campaign by Intermón Oxfam and FRIDE the Spanish media has begun to engage with issues surrounding EITI and the resource curse. During the fourth EITI Global Conference in Doha, Qatar, on 16-18 February and at the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Week in Washington on 3-5 March, numerous articles appeared in the Spanish press.

Publish What You Pay applauds the efforts of Intermón Oxfam (a PWYP member) and FRIDE in raising the critical issue of transparency in the extractive industries with the Spanish government and the public in general.

In the 2008 Report on Revenue Transparency of Oil and Gas Companies, Transparency International (TI) evaluates 42 leading oil and gas companies on their current policies, management systems and performance in areas relevant to revenue transparency in their upstream operations.

On 28 May 2008, FRIDE facilitated a meeting of members of the Commission for International Cooperation of the Spanish Parliament (Congreso de Diputados) with representatives of the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the CSO platform Publish What You Pay (PWYP).

London/Berlin – A majority of leading oil and gas companies are far from transparent when it comes to the payments they make to resource-rich countries, leaving the door open to corruption and hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to a report published today by Transparency International (TI).

London – In the wake of a recent report published by Transparency International [1], showing that leading oil and gas companies should be doing more to fight corruption and poverty in resource-rich countries, Publish What You Pay [2] calls on companies to publicly disclose how much money they pay to governments for the right to extract.