European Partnership for Responsible Minerals (EPRM)

The EPRM is a multi-stakeholder partnership with the objective to increase the proportion of responsibly produced minerals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRAs) and to support socially responsible extraction of minerals that contributes to local development. The EPRM is an accompanying measure to the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation. Since the legislation alone is not enough to make a real change ‘on the ground’, the EPRM is supporting mine sites in CAHRAs. The aim of this support is to enable more mines to comply with the standards required under the OECD Due Diligence Guidance. This in turn will enable companies to source minerals from the mines confident that they will be able to comply with relevant regulations such as the conditions of the EU Regulation. The EPRM focusses on tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (3TG).