Since Friday 4 October 2019, an EITI mission has been in Congo-Brazzaville. For one week, it will help the country prepare the second validation of its Report, scheduled for the end of current year.

At the end of the meeting that this delegation held Tuesday 9 October 2019 with the Minister of Finance and Budget, Calixte Nganongo, the Central African Country Manage, to the EITI international secretariat, Maylis Labusquière, member of this mission, said “this second country validation will look at the extent to which the EITI Transparency standard is being implemented in Congo”.

Pending this validation scheduled for the next three (3) months, the delegation of EITI international will see, during its stay, whether a number of information is made available to the Congolese authorities, private sector actors, civil society organisations and also citizens, on the management of the oil, mining and forestry sectors. It will also see how to improve this data transparency, in order to meet the requirements of the international label in terms of transparency of the three (3) extractive sectors. In this capacity, it will meet the members of the EITI-Congo Executive Committee, the various actors from the public and private sectors, as well as civil society, based in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire.

“We are in fact on a working basis concerning the next Report that EITI Congo Executive Committee will publish on the data of payments made by extractive companies and received by the State for fiscal year 2017. For now, we are really at the preliminary stage of this data that will be published”, Maylis Labusquière said.

As a reminder, in June 2018, at the EITI international Board of Directors in Berlin (Germany), the current validation exercise was sanctioned by the decision to give to the Republic of Congo the status of countries that have made significant efforts, with a period of 18 months to complete corrective actions and undergo a new validation review as of 1 January 2020. 

The Press office of the Ministry of Finance