Les ressources minérales profondes en Polynésie française / Deep-sea mineral resources in French Polynesia
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R9. Organise the monitoring and evaluation of deep-sea mineral resources policy in order to measure its effects and, when necessary, make changes
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Rationale
1Setting aside the “individual” projects for which monitoring and evaluation must be organised and information consolidated, the governance mechanisms must make it possible to regularly, reliably and precisely monitor and evaluate the deep-sea mining policy to measure its effects and, when necessary, con-sider new orientations (for example, whether or not to prohibit the export of unprocessed ore).
Timeframe
2These mechanisms must continually adapt to changes in the sector and they must be designed and put in motion very early on so that public authorities are able to retain control over mining developments and respond to enquiries from the public.
Proposed actions
- Define the indicators to be used to measure the impact of the mining policy: the number of exploration permits, the progress of individual projects (with regard to the cycle); economic impact (for the operational phase): volume and value of production, direct and indirect public revenue, number of direct and indirect jobs, energy consumed (per unit of value and/or tonnage produced); social indicators: conflicts (number, duration and resolution), training (number of technicians and/or managers trained); environmental indicators; international indicators (the international corruption index of Transparency International), human development index, etc.; macroeconomic sustainability indicators, tax revenue.
- Establish the timeframe for the indicators. Specifying indicators for mining projects means defining, from the start of operations, how often data will be collected. These data are used to establish the economic, environmental and social baseline. Sources of verification must be specified: once the indicator has been defined, the location of the information has to be specified. Indicators for the mining and metal industries developed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provide a reference framework that can be used directly.
- Make sure that the methods used actually fit the objectives; this must be broken down into a set of criteria. The GRI indicators are useful here, but it should be noted that they are not specific to one site and correspond to the results consolidated at group level. The mining companies must be required to produce an annual GRI report for their operating sites in French Polynesia.
- Ensure public access to information on mining resource policy: up-to-date publication online, number of visits to the site: GIS, legal framework, policy documents, environmental and societal impact statements, etc.
Constraints and conditions
3The mining companies must provide their data following the principle of trans-parency. Interpreting and drawing lessons from the indicator results require special skills in policy assessment. This must be performed by an institution independent of the mining company, either by strengthening the mines department by adding a special unit at government/presidential level in French Polynesia, or by calling on support from the French Polynesian Institute for Statistics or consultants.
Connections with other recommendations
4R9 is the overarching recommendation.
Reference to full contributions
50-1; II-6; IV-4
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