Brassage of mining active ingredients: Ounes for the strengthening of laws
On Saturday February 11, 2023 the Government of the DRC, during the last Council of Ministers, adopted a law in the mining sector.
This is the draft decree manual of procedures relating to transactions on mining assets of public enterprises.
For Observatory of Studies and Support for Social and Environmental Responsibility (Oearse), the government must go further.
In a statement published on February 13, he pleads for the strengthening of laws, but also to have a retrospective look at all the transactions previously carried out on mining assets of public enterprises at the expense of the interests of the State and the companies.
Indeed, for the DRC government, the concern is to supervise the process.
Which will in particular promote transparency, but will also promote the advertising process, the preservation of the interests of the State and the public enterprises concerned.
Thanks to this, the brading of mining active ingredients will end.
Oearse salutes this initiative, but recalls that since the advent of the new mining code, there has been a brading of mining assets.
”Unfortunately, many assets were ceded to private operators in violation of the mining code and the law n ° 08/010 of July 07, 2008 fixing the rules relating to the organization and management of the state portfolio.
This situation deprives important financial resources to certain public enterprises and the State to date, "the press release said.
In this press release, Ounes cited the case of the Kamoto Copper Company project.
For this NGO, the contract with this company must if necessary be revisited.
”Require more control of contractual obligations and or even revisit the contract of the Kamoto Copper Company project”, insists Oearse.
It must be said that Oearse is not the only organization to have raised your voice on this issue.
Others also did it.
This is the case to say it of "Congo is not for sale" and so many others.
Thus, this NGO considers that it "therefore becomes urgent for the government of the Republic to continue this momentum of strengthening the legal arsenal.
Because, the transactions previously carried out on mining assets of public enterprises were in opacity and the Congolese state remains the great loser. ”
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