Commissioner Cecilia Malmström has welcomed the European Parliament’s adoption on Thursday 16 March of the proposal (brought forward by the Commission in 2013) for a regulation to seek to stem the trade in conflict minerals – tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (the 3TG) – from conflict zones (Democratic Republic of Congo and the Great Lakes Region, in particular) thereby stopping the proceeds of this trade from being used to finance military and armed groups
This “ambitious,...