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Diane Ring4.4 Industry-specific reporting requirements (naturalresources, financial services)Industry-specific CbC reporting has also been a focus of increasedtransparency for countries. For example, United States securities lawregulations now require extractive industries to report various paymentsmade to foreign governments by businesses engaged in extractive industries(exploration, extraction, processing and export of oil, natural gasor minerals, or the acquisition of a licence to engage in such activity).These payments, which must be reported on a country-by-country basis,include “taxes, royalties, fees (including licence fees), production entitlements,bonuses, and other material benefits.” 54 Implementation of thesenew requirements (enacted into law in 2010), however, awaits Securitiesand Exchange Commission implementing regulation.On a more global scale, the Extractive Industries TransparencyInitiative (EITI) seeks to promote a two-pronged reporting approachfor transparency in extractive industries 55 under which businessesreport what they pay to each jurisdiction, and the governments reportwhat they receive. 56 However, work on industry-targeted disclosurehas not been limited to extractive industries. Directive 2013/36/EUof the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 onaccess to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervisionof credit institutions and investment firms (amending Directive2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC) 57seeks disclosure by covered financial institutions of information on acountry-by-country basis, including: profit or loss before tax, tax paid,subsidies received, average number of employees. Member States ofthe EU must enact rules domestically to require the reporting. 5854United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, section 13 (q).55Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Fact Sheet 2014, availableat http://eiti.org/files/2014-03-26%20Factsheet%20English_0.pdf.56EITI countries and country reports are available at http://eiti.org/countries.57Available at http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:176:0338:0436:EN:PDF.58See, for example, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelandreporting rules which came into effect in January 2014, with the first552

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