EU Conflict Minerals Regulation term for voluntary due-diligence procedures, tools, mechanisms, and audits overseen by governments, industry associations, or interested organisations.
A due-diligence scheme is infrastructure for due diligence; it is not the importer’s entire legal responsibility. Public copy should keep the scheme, its oversight, audit logic, and recognition/evidence boundaries distinct from a company’s own risk-management actions.
Regulation (EU) 2017/821 laying down supply chain due diligence obligations for Union importers of tin, tantalum and tungsten, their ores, and gold originating from conflict-affected and high-risk areas
a combination of voluntary supply chain due diligence procedures, tools and mechanisms, including independent third-party audits, developed and overseen by governments, industry associations or groupings of interested organisations
Article 2 definitions for EU conflict-minerals due diligence. Source-specific to tin, tantalum, tungsten, their ores, and gold.
Reference: Article 2, point (m)
Implementation records should capture the scheme identifier, audit mechanism, oversight body, participating actors, procedure/tool scope, recognition status where applicable, audit report links, and the importer due-diligence controls that rely on the scheme.
A conflict-minerals due-diligence scheme is an assurance-infrastructure control: it can structure audits and procedures, but evidence still has to connect back to material scope, actor responsibility, and risk decisions.