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Achieving Extractive Transparency in the European Union
The European Union’s (EU) 2013 amendments of its Accounting Directive and Transparency Directive to require oil, gas, mining and forestry companies to report their payments to governments on a country-by-country and project-by-project basis were achieved after more than ten years of international advocacy and campaigning by the global Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition. Compared […]
PWYP UK urges UK Treasury to require open data reporting by all London Stock Exchange-listed extractive companies
July 2015 – With the UK Treasury still appearing reluctant to prescribe open data payment reporting for non-UK-incorporated London-listed extractive companies, PWYP UK members have written to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke MP, highlighting this inconsistency with the UK’s Open Government Partnership and 2013 G8 commitments on open and machine-readable data and […]
Accounting and Transparency Directives: key issues in transposition
The EU Accounting and Transparency Directives will require oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish payments made to governments for access to natural resources. EU Member States have until 2015 to pass implementing legislation to bring payment reporting into law. In the UK, the Department of Business, Innovations and Skills (“BIS”) has adopted regulations […]
The EITI Process in Iraq: How do we move from transparency to accountability?
Iraq’s oil reserves are some of the highest in the world and the main sources of revenue for the Iraqi government. The country’s oil export policy has also been critical in defining international oil supply and pricing. By becoming an EITI compliant country in 2012, Iraq took steps in the right direction to ensure good […]
Fresh Out of the Oven: Fresh EITI Law Adopted in Ukraine
On 16 June 2015, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted the law “On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine on increasing transparency in the extractive industries in Ukraine” (Reg. № 2591 from 04.07.2015). This is a big step forward for transparency and accountability in the sector in Ukraine and the result of years of campaigning […]
Open Data: it’s about the people, not just apps
These days we all hear a lot about the data avalanche and how civil society across the world is using and getting prepared to use this data. Of course this is a very exciting prospect that in some places is actually already taking place today while the bigger transparency revolution awaits us in 2016 and […]
Canada moves to increase transparency in the extractive industries globally
On Monday June 1st, 2015, the Government of Canada announced that the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA) has come into force, a move that was welcomed by members of the Publish What You Pay coalition around the world.
Oxfam America present oral arguments in case against SEC
In 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act, section 1504 of which obliges all extractive companies listed in the US to publicly disclose the payments they make to governments around the world. Five years on, despite inspiring similar legislation by other jurisdictions around the world, this law has yet to come into effect. […]
What lies ahead for Azerbaijan and EITI?
The situation for civil society activists in Azerbaijan has gone from bad to worse over the last couple of years, despite the country being part of two prestigious transparency initiatives, the EITI and OGP. PWYP has documented the deterioration of civil society rights and has repeatedly called for strong action to be taken. Last month, […]
Fact-sheet – Canada extractive transparency law
On December 17th, 2014 the Government of Canada passed into law the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act as part of omnibus legislation Bill C-43. Under this Act, publicly traded and large private oil, gas, and mining companies must publicly disclose payments to governments, not just in Canada, but around the world. Read the the fact […]
Fact Sheet – SEC Rules for Oil and Mineral Payment Disclosure
On August 22, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to approve regulations to implement Section 1504, or the Cardin-Lugar Amendment, of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 1504 requires any oil, gas or mining company reporting to the SEC to disclose their country and project-level payments to host governments […]
Communiqué of PWYP Eurasia meeting
On 27-29 April 2015 representatives of civil society from Albania, Azerbaijan, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Ukraine gathered in Kyev, Ukraine for the workshop on Ukrainian and Eurasian civil society in the EITI: Common challenges – joint approaches. Civil society in the region faces similar difficulties in the implementation of EITI, whether that is […]