{"id":7917,"date":"2018-07-03T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T10:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/?p=7917"},"modified":"2018-10-03T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:23:11","slug":"netherlands-candidate-member-of-extractive-industries-transparency-initiative-eiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2018\/07\/nederlands-nederland-kandidaat-lid-extractive-industries-transparency-initiative-eiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands candidate member of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rvo.nl\/onderwerpen\/internationaal-ondernemen\/kennis-en-informatie\/maatschappelijk-verantwoord-ondernemen\/transparantie-en-verslaglegging\/eiti\/goedkeuring-nl\">joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as a candidate-member<\/a> on the 28th of June. The Netherlands has become the fourth European country that gained this status. Open State Foundation playes an active role in EITI-Netherlands via membership of the multi-stakeholder group of government, industry and civil society organizations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eiti.org\/\">EITI<\/a> is a worldwide standard for the transparant governance of oil, gas, minerals and other extractives. The Netherlands has until 2019 to comply with the requirements of EITI-membership and deliver the first EITI-report.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Transparency of extractives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The goal of the Dutch EITI-membership is to provide understandable and verified information about finances of the extractives-industry (mainly oil and gas) and the government. The application of the Dutch EITI-membership has been prepared by a multi-stakeholder group with representatives\u00a0from the Dutch government, industry and civil society organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Kunzler, interim-director of Open State Foundation: \u2018Open State wants to make sure that the information about extractives will be made available as open data as complete and re-usable as possible. By doing so, everyone can get insight which enables a well informed public debate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as a candidate-member on the 28th of June. The Netherlands has become the fourth European country that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/2018\/07\/nederlands-nederland-kandidaat-lid-extractive-industries-transparency-initiative-eiti\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":8233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7921,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions\/7921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}