persons engaged in artisanal and small-scale mining in applying
minimum environmental, health and safety standards, as well as
steps taken to formalize the sector;
Grievance mechanisms
x) Provisions laying down administrative, civil and criminal liability
for violations of applicable human rights, responsibility on fiscal
obligations and transparency and other national legal obligations;
y) The judicial and non-judicial complaints mechanisms including
the extent to which they are equipped and resourced to adjudicate
grievances of affected communities or individuals;
z) Provide data on complaints received and settled through such
mechanisms, including statistics on the number of individuals
using the grievance mechanisms; on the number of companies
found responsible for violations; and on the applicable sanctions
or penalties that have been imposed including revoking of licenses;
aa) Provision of legal aid and other measures that enable persons and
affected communities to access grievance mechanisms;
Fiscal regulation
ab) General financial information, including the percentage of the
GDP received from the extractive industry;
ac) Information on the relationship payments made to market value of
prices paid by extractive industries for resources in raw form and
refined form;
ad) Detailed information on any financial or tax incentives provided to
companies in the extractive industries;
ae) Steps taken to address illicit financial flow through amendments to
national tax laws and policies, rules on related party transactions,
company laws and policies, banking laws and policies and laws and
policies governing the financial services sector;
af) Measures put in place to renegotiate agreements that limit the
State’s ability to collect adequate revenue from commercial activities
within the extractives sector;
ag) Information on the legislative, administrative and judicial measures
put in place to combat corruption in the extractive industries sector;
ah) Information on the extent to which the State is involved in jointventures and the tax implications of such ventures;
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