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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11574

17 June 2016
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade
Interinstitutional agreement on conflict minerals law

Brussels, 16/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - After six months of intense negotiations, the European Parliament and the Council reached an agreement in principle, on Thursday 16 June, on the draft regulation proposed by the Commission in March 2013 to cut off the funding derived by military and armed groups in conflict zones - the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region, amongst others - from mining and trading in tin, gold, tantalum and tungsten.

The MEPs have secured an...

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