The DRC's certification authority for mineral substances, a technical public establishment of the Ministry of Mines whose statutes were fixed by Décret n°11/28 of 7 June 2011. In the artisanal copper-cobalt chain, ITIE-RDC describes it validating grades at artisanal depots, checking processing plants' input and output, issuing the certificate of origin for exports of artisanal products and running a laboratory at the Musompo trading centre; the same report found it absent from extraction sites. C4D's paper lists it among the regulatory and technical bodies around the project.
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