DR Congo reorganises EITI to strengthen mining transparency
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Beto
The DR Congo government approved a draft decree reorganising the National Committee of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative to strengthen transparency and good governance of natural resources. The reform is also intended to make the EITI-DRC's operations more flexible and extend the application of its standard to the sectors concerned, according to the Council of Ministers' report.
The Council of Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo approved on 6 November a draft decree amending the operating framework of the National Committee of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI-DRC). The text amends and supplements the decree of 16 July 2009 governing this body responsible for promoting transparency in the exploitation of non-renewable natural resources, according to the report of the 102nd ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The reform provides for more flexible operating bodies in order to improve the effectiveness of the EITI-DRC and to promote the application of the EITI Standard to all sectors concerned by extractive resources. The draft decree was presented to the Council of Ministers on behalf of the Minister of Planning and Coordination of Development Aid, who was then on mission.
The text was adopted after debates and deliberations by the Council of Ministers chaired by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka. This reorganisation comes in a context where mining resources occupy a central place in the Congolese economy.
