By Ian Weekes, Crowe, Clarke, Whitehill EU announces agreement to curb the trade in Conflict Minerals The EU has announced that agreement has been reached in negotiations between the Commission,…
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CRM - Critical Raw MaterialsCrucibleLegislation and RegulationThe Crucible: November 2022CRM Alliance: Position paper on EU Critical Raw Materials Act
Following the announcement of the proposed EU Critical Raw Materials Act (see The Crucible, September 2022), the European Commission invited views on the proposed legislation (see The Crucible, October 2022)…
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CRM - Critical Raw MaterialsCrucibleLegislation and RegulationThe Crucible: May 2024EU Critical Raw Materials Act published
The European Union’s Critical Raw Materials Act was published today in the Official Journal of the European Commission and comes in to force on 23 May. Read the full text…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: March 2023EU Trade Contact Group plenary session
The TCG held its plenary session on 28 February. Julia Tiskowiec summarises the proceedings for the MMTA. EU Customs Reform Aim: The upcoming customs reform is described as a…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: June 2023The Crucible: June 2024Finders aren’t keepers in a salvaged silver case
Amid the perilous egg-and-spoon race for seabed exploration, we don’t often get a chance to focus on a more traditional kind of hunting for precious metals on the seabed. Associated…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: October 2022London calling: can crypto be security
Can crypto be security? In Tulip Trading v Bitcoin Association for BSV,[1] the High Court considered whether to order security in the form of digital assets such as Bitcoin. Background…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: February 2023London calling… Exclusion does not exclude wasted expenditure
The Court of Appeal held that an exclusion of liability clause did not prohibit a claim for wasted expenditure. The clause in the spotlight was as follows: “… neither…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: September 2022Trade IssuesLondon calling… filling the interest gap
The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 implies a term into certain business contracts for the supply of goods and services so to allow a creditor a right…
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The Court of Appeal has recently considered and upheld a previous High Court decision, finding that a firm of solicitors were not able to rely on privileged communications with…
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The reflective loss principle prevents a shareholder from seeking to recover a loss from a wrongdoer which merely reflects the loss suffered by the company it is interested in. Over…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationThe Crucible: February 2023London calling… When “reserving your rights” may not be enough
Two relatively recent cases remind us of the possible limits of “reserving your rights” in certain situations. For Mr Justice Baker, in the 2018 case Phones 4u Ltd (In…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: October 2022London calling…Commercial court enforces pro-arbitration position
Background The case arose out of a JV for the operation of a Russian coalmine with 3 investors, including NDK, which held a 75% share in an SPV registered in…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: September 2022Trade IssuesWaste and RecyclingMMTA Note: Italy – radiometric checks on metals
It has come to the MMTA’s attention that some members have experienced delays this year in getting their metal shipments cleared through Italian customs as they required additional radiometric testing.…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: October 2022Trade IssuesMMTA notice: New UK Russia sanctions
On 26 September, the UK government placed new sanctions in connection with the war in Ukraine on several Russian businessmen “for supporting or obtaining benefit from the Government of Russia…
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CRM - Critical Raw MaterialsCrucibleLegislation and RegulationThe Crucible February/March 2018The Crucible: September 2022Trade IssuesNews in Brief
With high gas and electricity prices battering Europe, UK and EU governments announced winter support, including temporary caps on prices for domestic and business consumers. EU measures unveiled on…
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Retired metal merchant, Anthony Lipmann, illuminates trading for the young entering the world of metals. Last night I dreamt I was short of …ium – a metal we…
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CRM - Critical Raw MaterialsCrucibleLegislation and RegulationResourcesThe Crucible: February 2023
Public policy consultations – European Union
2023 Strategic Foresight Report—deadline 13 March The European Commission has launched a call for evidence to inform its 2023 Strategic Foresight Report. This report is published every year, and…
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CrucibleLegislation and RegulationThe Crucible: June 2022Trade IssuesUncategorizedREACH in a post-Brexit United Kingdom
by REACHReady Following the departure of Great Britain from the EU and with the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020, EU chemicals regulations such as REACH, the…
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The mining and metals industry has an image problem. Dirty, corrupt and exploitative are words that may spring to mind in certain parts of the world. Energy intensive and polluting are probably used even more widely. However, without the mining of ores and their subsequent processing into metals, we would have no buildings, infrastructure, consumer products (not to mention anything even vaguely high-tech), we would literally still be stuck in the Stone Age.