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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11484

6 February 2016
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade
Draft legislation on conflict minerals still pending

Brussels, 05/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - The future legislation aimed at limiting the financing of military and armed groups in conflict areas (such as the Great Lakes region in the DRC and in Eastern Africa) through trade in tin, gold, tantalum and tungsten - the so-called conflict minerals legislation - remains in limbo as the priorities of the European Parliament and Council as still far apart on the nature of the system for monitoring the supply chain for these minerals.

The European...

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