Guidance on contracts and contract transparency

Guide › Requirement 2 › Contracts and contract transparency (2.4)

Countries are required to document the government's policy on the disclosure of contracts and licenses. 

They are encouraged to publicly disclose contracts and licenses.

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Guidance and publications related to contracts

The guidance note contains a step-by-step approach for multi-stakeholder groups to address contracts transpanrecy, as well as some examples.

Guidance note 7 on contract transparency and checklist

Published Date: 
January, 2020
Publisher: 
EITI International Secretariat

Requirement 2.4

Checklist for integrating plans for contract transparency in work plans [English French Spanish Russian], January 2020

This checklist guides countries in determining the steps needed to publish contracts as of 1 January 2021, as required by the 2019 Standard. 

Please note that the guidance note below reflects the 2016 Standard. The 2019 Standard requires the publication of contracts by 1 January 2021.

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Past the Tipping Point? Contract Disclosure within EITI

Published Date: 
February, 2017
Publisher: 
NRGI

When governments and private sector companies agree to exploit publicly held natural resources, citizens have the right to know the terms of the resulting deals. These terms are contained in licenses, contracts, regulations and legislation. While regulations and legislation are usually public, licenses and contracts are not.

This report shows that it has become the norm among Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) implementing countries to disclose the contracts and licenses that lay out the terms for resource exploitation.

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EITI Consultation

Consultation on contract transparency

Published Date: 
February, 2013
Publisher: 
EITI

A consultation with implementing countries on contract transparency took place from 9 November 2012 – 11 January 2013. Find the documentation below.

The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) undertook a strategic review to improve the EITI Standard. One of the proposals under discussion was whether the revised EITI Rules should require or encourage disclosure of contracts between governments and extractive companies, or simply note that implementing countries may wish to decide to do so.

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Countries that have effectively mandated contract/license disclosure

NRGI published an overview of theory and practice in contract disclosure in March 2017:

Source: Table 1. Overview of contract/license disclosure policy  and practice in EITI implementing countries, p. 14 of the NRGI Study on contract disclosure, March 2017

Countries disclosing contracts online

Our country map indicates what countries have published contracts online. The data on the countries is sourced from the summary data files the national secretariats submitted to the International Secretariat.

Examples of clearly formulated legal requirements with regards to contract and license disclosure

 

Validation of this requirement

See Validation Guide, section 2.4 - Contracts

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