紛争鉱物問題に関する取り組み

コンゴ民主共和国（DRC）及びその隣接国など、紛争が絶えない地域原産の鉱物が、人権侵害や暴力行為を行う反政府軍の武装資金源と化していることが大きな国際問題となり、OECD（経済協力開発機構）では、紛争地域及び高リスク地域からの鉱物のサプライチェーンにおいて人権を尊重するとともに、紛争への関与を回避するためのリスク管理を行うよう企業に求めています。
これらを背景として、2010年7月、米国「金融規制改革法」（ドッド＝フランク法）が成立し、米国証券取引委員会（SEC）は、同国で上場する企業に対し、DRC及びその隣接国で産出される4鉱物（錫、タンタル、タングステン、金）について、その使用実績の有無や原産国の開示義務を課す規制を制定しています。
スイス・エンジニアリング・シール㈱は、総合輸入会社として責任ある鉱物調達を目指しており、紛争鉱物問題への対応をグローバルなサプライチェーンにおける重要課題と認識し、本法の主旨を踏まえた活動を強化しています。
今後も、お取引先をはじめとするさまざまなステークホルダーの皆さまと連携し、紛争鉱物不使用に向けた取り組みを実践しながら、深刻化する資金洗浄による紛争の助長を防止し、人権侵害や暴力行為への加担を回避するなど、より責任ある鉱物調達に向けた取り組みを推進いたします。

We check the conflict minerals reports of our suppliers.
All our suppliers are EU or USA based companies.
They severely obey to the rules and regulations of The United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Conflict Minerals Policy Statement
Swiss Engineering Seals Ltd. is committed to source components and materials from companies that share our values regarding respect for human rights, integrity and environmental responsibility.
It is well known that human rights violations have been associated with the mining of certain minerals from the eastern portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding countries (the “Conflict Region”). To address these issues, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted final rules to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to Conflict Minerals (as defined below), as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The rules require manufacturers who file certain reports with the SEC to disclose whether the products they manufacture or contract to manufacture contain Conflict Minerals that are “necessary to the functionality or production” of those products. As defined by the SEC, “Conflict Minerals” refers to gold, as well as tin, tantalum, and tungsten, which are derivatives of cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, and wolframite, respectively, regardless of where they are sourced, processed or sold.
SES supports these requirements to further the humanitarian goal of ending violence in the Conflict Region, which has been partially financed by the exploitation and trade of Conflict Minerals.

Accordingly, we will do the following:

1. We will ask our suppliers to undertake reasonable due diligence with their supply chains to determine if Conflict Minerals are being sourced only from (i) smelters outside the Conflict Region or (ii) smelters within the Conflict Region which have been certified by an independent third party as “conflict free”. At our request, our suppliers will be required to provide complement EICC-GeSI declarations documenting countries of origin for the Conflict Minerals they purchase.

2. We will encourage our suppliers to commit to being or becoming “conflict free” (which means that such supplier would not source Conflict Minerals from facilities in the Conflict Region that finance conflict or human rights violations).

3. If we discover that any material, part or component we procure contains Conflict Minerals that originate in the Conflict Region and are used to fund conflict, we will take appropriate actions to transition our product(s) to be “conflict free”.