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25 4 Certification in the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC Since 2009 BGR supports the DRC Ministry of Mines in developing a mineral certification system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the background of the German Congolese cooperation program Strengthening of Transparency and Control of the Natural Resource Sector in the DRC The BGR program component is based on an adapted CTC approach focussing on the eastern provinces of the DRC and working in partnership with the DRC Ministry of Mines as well as two DRC govern ment mining agencies CEEC Centre d Evaluation d Expertise et de Certification and SAESSCAM Service d Assistance et d Encadrement du Small Scale Mining CEEC registers values and taxes DRC production of diamonds and other high value minerals including gold coltan cassiterite and wolframite SAESSCAM was established in 2003 to assist and for malize artisanal miners The ASM sector in the DRC is larger and less forma lized than in Rwanda According to estimates several hundred thousand artisanal miners work in more than 350 small scale mines in the Kivu provinces of eastern DRC Although the December 2011 report of the UN Group of Experts on the DRC observed an improvement in the overall security situation con flict and conflict financing remain serious problems in the eastern DRC s ASM sector mainly due to the absence of government control over certain mining areas and limited institutional capacities The certification project in the DRC aims to contri bute to the development and implementation of a mineral traceability system building the capacity of DRC mining institutions and to integrate certifica tion into national legislation As with CTC in Rwanda the DRC certification project developed a set of standards which will be applied to pilot sites and cooperatives before implementing the standards in the entire mining sector as part of national legislation To this end the certification project in the DRC has elaborated a standard set that largely mirrors CTC standards in Rwanda and is thus applicable in principle to the conditions of ASM in the DRC including the conflict dimension 24 2012 BGR Hannover 2012 BGR Hannover