Coalition press releases

This press release is also available in PDF

For immediate release

Global civil society coalition Publish What You Pay welcomed today’s announcement by the UK and French governments that they will join the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a voluntary multi-stakeholder approach to greater transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries launched by Tony Blair in 2002.

The UK has been one of the EITI’s

Latest failure in oil industry efforts to blunt global payment disclosure momentum

You can also read this press release in PDF

The European Union has today agreed historic new rules which will require oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish the payments they make for access to natural resources in all countries where they operate.

The provisional deal reached by European negotiators on Tuesday evening will ensure that citizens around the world are better able to hold their governments to account for the exploit

This press release is also available in PDF

21 March 2013

For immediate release

The UK government has gone on record as opposing exemptions in the country- and project-level disclosure requirements for oil, gas, mining and forestry companies currently under discussion between EU Member States, the Commission and the European Parliament.

UK Business Minister Jo Swinson MP said in the House of Commons earlier today i

You can also view this press release in PDF

LONDON, February 25, 2013 — Ahead of Tuesday’s international board meeting of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Oslo, civil society organisations urge oil companies to drop a lawsuit that aims to overturn US transparency laws.

The suit, brought by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and others against the U.S.

The Dutch government has announced that it will not support the inclusion of dangerous exemptions in new European legislation which will require oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish the payments they make to governments around the world.

Speaking after a cabinet meeting on 8 February 2013, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen confirmed that the Dutch government believed granting companies exemptions from reporting was “not desirable”.

Download this press release in PDF

Publish What You Pay, the global civil society coalition campaigning for greater openness in the oil, gas and mining sectors, today called on the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to respond to the legitimate demands of civil society by developing a financial disclosure standard which can fight tax dodging and corruption in resource rich countries around the world.

“Finite natural resourc

You can download this press release to view the original PDF

WASHINGTON, DC – Prominent members of Congress submitted legal briefs this week to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to defend a landmark transparency law against an oil industry lawsuit.

Today the Publish What You Pay coalition together with Friends of the Earth Europe launched a Europe-wide advert in the Financial Times calling on the European Union to seize a historic opportunity to pass European transparency laws for oil, gas, mining and logging companies.

The laws would ensure that citizens and investors are able to benefit from greater transparency in natural resource deals struck between companies and governments around the world.