Each holder of a Mining Title or Authorisation shall submit to the Ministry in charge of Mines, no later than ninety (90) days after the end of each calendar year, an Anti-Corruption Monitoring Plan.
This Plan, published on the official Website of the Ministry in charge of Mines, or any other site designated by the Minister, or in a newspaper of wide circulation, must contain the following:
- strategies undertaken during the previous year to ensure that the holder and any civil servant director, employee, representative or subcontractor of the holder or any shareholder thereof duly acting on its behalf, have complied with the provisions of this Code relating to the prohibition ofon the payment of Bribes by companies, including but not limited to the adoption and implementation of internal monitoring mechanisms, training of employees and partners in the field of the prevention of Corruption, and organization of audits and internal investigations for the prevention and identification of acts of corruption;
- any proven cases of violation of the provisions of this Code relating to the prohibition on the payment of Bribes by companies by the people referred to in the preceding paragraph, brought to the attention of the holder, as a result of an internal investigation, or by other means, and the actions taken to investigate and, if necessary, punish the offence;
- the strategies proposed for the following year to ensure that the holder and the persons referred to in the preceding paragraphs comply with the provisions of this Code relating to the prohibition on the payment of Bribes by companies, including but not limited to the adoption and implementation of mechanisms of internal monitoring, training of employees and partners in the field of prevention of corruption, and the organization of audits and internal investigations for the prevention and identification of corruption.