In a January 21, 2016 release titled Extension of Comment Period for Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers, the Securities and Exchange Commission extended the comment periods for the revised proposed Rule 13q-1 (and the related amendment to Form SD). That proposed rule relates to the disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers in connection with the commercial development of … Continue Reading
As we discussed in posts on September 3, 2015 and on October 2, 2015, Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required the SEC to issue resource extraction payment rules. The purpose of those rules was to promote the federal government’s desire for transparency about resource extraction payments made by commercial entities to governments around the world. The initial … Continue Reading
In a previous post, we provided a summary of both the maneuverings of the SEC’s resource extraction rule after it was issued and Oxfam’s suit to speed up the SEC’s development of a revised rule after it was vacated. As a reminder, on September 2, 2015 (nearly a year after the Oxfam case was filed), a federal judge gave the SEC a … Continue Reading
On September 2, 2015, a federal judge ordered the SEC to file, by October 2, 2015, an “expedited schedule” for issuing the final resource extraction payment rule (which was required by Section 1504 of Dodd-Frank). This order is added to an already complicated setting of: increased regulation from the US, states and other countries requiring … Continue Reading
In a ruling in API vs. SEC on July 2, 2013, the US District Court for the District of Columbia vacated the SEC’s resource extraction rule and sent it back to the SEC for further proceedings. Observers of NAM vs. SEC are considering what impact the decision in the resource extraction case – and the court’s analysis – may have … Continue Reading
On April 29th, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit canceled oral arguments scheduled in the National Association of Manufacturer’s (NAM) challenge to the conflict minerals rule. Following the court’s dismissal of the American Petroleum Institute’s case challenging the resource extraction rule, NAM filed a motion on April 30th to transfer its conflict minerals case to district court. The case will be heard … Continue Reading
