Companies have had a long and winding path to Conflict Minerals Rule compliance. Determining the extent of the use in the supply chain of minerals such as tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold mined in war-torn Central Africa and considered a source of funding for militant groups—as the rule requires—has been a struggle for most companies. Getting accurate information on the existence and source of the minerals in each product was already an uphill climb.

Then a court challenge by business groups raised questions about what the final requirements would entail and if the Conflict Minerals Rules would even stand. Indeed the timing of a recent court decision rejecting part of an SEC rule on conflict minerals disclosures could not have been worse. Many companies were already straining to meet the June 2 deadline, and now the court ruling has added another layer of confusion and uncertainty.

In this e-Book, produced by Compliance Week in cooperation with iPoint, we try to cut through that confusion as companies move forward on compliance. First we look at what the court ruled and the effect it is having on Conflict Minerals Rule compliance. Next we consider how leading companies are moving conflict minerals from a compliance exercise to a process to get better intelligence on the composition of products and the sourcing of materials and what types of similar regulation could be coming. Finally, we consider the finer points of completing the disclosure itself.

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