Reference:2019-48/BM-43

Where: 43rd Board meeting in Paris, France

Description: the Board agreed to the following:

A framework for validating Requirement 2.5 that consists of a technical assessment of meeting the requirements and an assessment of effectiveness. Validations in the first stage (until 31 December 2021) consider a set of initial criteria that would qualify for an assessment of ‘satisfactory progress’ in meeting the requirement.

Reference: 2019-43/BM-44

Where: 42st Board meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine

Description: the Board acknowledges the adoption of the 2019 EITI Standard to be launched at the EITI Global Conference in Paris on 18-19 June.

Based on:  Article 12, Articles of Association

Internal: 43nd Board meeting papersPublic domain:Blog: the road from Kyiv to ParisMinutes of the 42nd Board meetingOverview of proposed changes to EITI Requirements

Reference: 2019-42/BC-276

The Board expressed its concern about the weakening of government engagement and MSG oversight in Liberia. Following a review in accordance with Requirement 8.6, the Board found that Liberia has made inadequate progress in implementing requirements related to government engagement (1.1), the multi-stakeholder group (1.4) and the work plan (1.5). Progress in implementing Requirement 1.3 on civil society engagement and Requirement 1.2 on company engagement is considered meaningful.

Reference: 2019-45/BM-43

Description: see below for the decision in full. PDF attached at bottom of the page.

Where: 43rd Board meeting in Paris, France

Based on: Requirement 8.3 EITI Validation deadlines and consequences

Internal: Board paper 43-6Public domain:Peru second Validation 2018News item on the decisionScorecard: Peru's progress by requirement

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Reference: 2019-47/BM-43

Description: see below for the decision in full. PDF attached at bottom of the page.

Where: 43rd Board meeting in Paris, France

Based on: Requirement 8.3 EITI Validation deadlines and consequences

Internal: Board paper 43-6Public domain:Mali second Validation 2019News item on the decision:

Reference: 2019-44/BM-43

Description: see below for the decision in full. PDF attached at bottom of the page.

Where: 43rd Board meeting in Paris, France

Based on: Requirement 8.3 EITI Validation deadlines and consequences

Internal: Board paper 43-6Public domain:Albania second Validation 2019News item on the decision: EITI countries progress on path to transparency and accountabilityScorecard: Albania's progress by requirement 

Reference: 2019-46/BM-43

Description: see below for the decision in full. PDF attached at bottom of the page.

Where: 43rd Board meeting in Paris, France

Based on: Requirement 8.3 EITI Validation deadlines and consequences

Internal: Board paper 43-6Public domain:​Sierra Leone Validation 2018: DocumentationNews article on the decisionScorecard

Reference: 2019-41/BC-274

The Board agreed that Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Minister of State and Chair of the Senegal-EITI is to succeed Marième Diawara Thiaw, Permanent Secretary/Coordinator, EITI Secretariat, Senegal, from the constituency of implementing countries as alternate Board member.

Where: 42nd Board meeting in Kyiv

Based on: Article 5, Articles of Association

Public domain: EITI Board members

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Reference: 2019-40/BC-273

The Board had suspended Madagascar on 1 February 2019 for missing the deadline for the 2017 annual progress report. The Board agreed that “the suspension will be lifted if the EITI Board is satisfied that Madagascar has published its 2017 annual progress report.

The Secretariat can confirm that Madagascar published this report on 29 April 2019 and thus the suspension was lifted. The report also covers the year 2018 and is available here

Reference: 2019-39/BC-273

Description: see below for the decision in full. PDF attached at bottom of the page.

Based on: Requirement 8.3 EITI Validation deadlines and consequences

Internal: Board Circular 273Public domain:Germany Validation 2018News item on the decision: Germany EITI leads by exampleScorecard: (to be added)

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