On 11 September 2020, Republic of the Congo was found to have made meaningful progress with considerable improvements in implementing the 2016 EITI Standard. See Board decision 2020-68/BC-295.
In this second Validation, the EITI International Secretariat has assessed the progress made in addressing the 15 corrective actions established by the EITI Board following the first Validation. See more under background below.
Timeline of Validation and related materials
- 29 December 2019: Validation commenced
- 20 January - 14 February 2020: Stakeholder consultations
Secretariat assessment & comments
- 14 April 2020 - Draft Secretariat assessment
- 10 June 2020 - Comments from the MSG
- 3 July 2020 - Final Secretariat assessment
Validation Committee and Board review
- 4 September 2020 - VC Recommendation to the Board, Board Circular 295
- 11 September 2020 - Board decision 2020-68/BC-295, scorecard and corrective actions [English | French]
Background
This is a second Validation. On 29 June 2018, the EITI Board found that the Republic of Congo had made meaningful progress in implementing the EITI Standard (see Board decision 2018-34/BM-40). The Board established that progress in addressing 15 corrective actions would be assessed in a second Validation. The corrective actions were related to:
- Civil society engagement (Requirement 1.3)
- MSG oversight (Requirement 1.4)
- License allocations (Requirement 2.2)
- License registers (Requirement 2.3)
- State participation (Requirement 2.6)
- Production data (Requirement 3.2)
- In-kind revenues (Requirement 4.2)
- Barter and infrastructure provisions (Requirement 4.3)
- Transactions related to state-owned enterprises (Requirement 4.5)
- Data quality (Requirement 4.9)
- Distribution of extractive industry revenues (Requirement 5.1)
- Social expenditures (Requirement 6.1)
- Quasi-fiscal expenditures (Requirement 6.2)
- Economic contribution (Requirement 6.3)
- Public debate (Requirement 7.1)
