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Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Timor-Leste |
| On 1 July 2010, Timor-Leste completed a seven-year process of becoming compliant with the standards of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which was appreciated by the Government and by La'o Hamutuk. Ever since then-Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri spoke at the founding conference of EITI in 2003, governments, civil society and oil companies have worked together to achieve this goal, and La'o Hamutuk congratulates them all for making Timor-Leste the third EITI-compliant nation in the world. Compliance was achieved after independent validators verified Timor-Leste's first EITI report (for 2008). Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is a worldwide effort to improve transparency and accountability in management of revenues from oil, gas and mining, established in September 2002 by the British government, and now coordinated by Norway. EITI is a voluntary coalition of governments, companies, civil society groups, investors and international organizations. Oil-consuming and industrialized nations encourage EITI to improve revenue management by governments of oil exporting countries through the verification and publication of company payments and government revenues. A number of oil and mining companies say they are willing to use EITI as an international standard, although most will implement it only when governments of resource-producing countries require them to do so. Transparency in revenue management alone does not ensure a fair and just use of non-renewable resources, and transparency alone does not address many other problems which confront citizens of extractive-dependent countries, such as sustainability, reducing petroleum dependency, violations of community and human rights, environmental protection and attention to vulnerable groups. | Iha loron 1 Julho 2010, Timor-Leste kompleta prosesu ida ba tinan hitu atu sai kumpridor ho standar Inisiativa Transparansi ba Industria Extrativa (Eng.), ka ho lian Ingles hanaran Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), ne’ebe mak Governu (Port.) no La’o Hamutuk apresia. Komesa hosi tempu ne’ebe Primeiru Ministru Mari Alkatiri koalia iha konferensia lori hari EITI (Eng.) nian iha 2003, governu sira, sosiedade sivil no kompania mina sira servico hamutuk ona atu atinzi objektivu ida ne’e, no La’o Hamutuk kongratula sira tanba halo Timor-Leste sai hanesan nasaun kumpridor terseiru iha mundu. Timor-Leste sai kumpridor depois de ema independente ne’ebe halo validasaun (Eng.) verifika relatorio EITI Timor-Leste nian ba dala uluk (ba 2008). Inisiativa Transparansia ba Industria Extrativa mak esforsa mundial ida atu hadi’a transparansia no akuntabilidade iha manajementu rendimentu hosi mina, gas no minerais, estabelese iha Setembru 2002 hosi governu Britania, no agora Norvegia mak kordena. EITI mak koalisaun voluntariamente entre governu sira, kompania sira, grupo sosiedade sivil sira, investidores sira no organizasaun internasional sira. Nasaun konsumidor mina sira no nasaun industializadu sira enkoraja EITI atu hadi’a manajementu rendimentu hosi governu nasaun exportador mina, liu hosi verifikasaun no publikasaun pagamentu kompania no rendimentu governu. Kompania mina no osan mean balu hateten sira sei pronto atu uza EITI hanesan standar internasional ida, maski barak hosi ne’e hein atu implementa nia somente to'o governu nasaun produtor sira obriga sira atu halo hanesan ne’e. Transparansia iha manajementu rendimentu deit la asegura katak rekursu ne’ebe labele hafoun (non-renewable resources/rekursu nonrenovable) bele uza ho justu no los, no transparensia mesak labele responde ba problema barak seluk, ne’ebe sidadaun hosi nasaun ne’ebe depende ba extrativa sira konfronta, hanesan sustentabilidade, hamenus dependensia ba petroleum, violasaun direitu komunidade no direitu umanu nian, protesaun meio-ambiente no atensaun ba grupo vulneravel sira. |
2011 When pre-release versions of Timor-Leste's second EITI report, covering 2009, began circulating in December 2010, an erroneous web page from the EITI international secretariat said it had been released (this was corrected when La'o Hamutuk brought it to their attention.) A pre-release 2009 report was analyzed by Revenue Watch Institute and compared with those from 22 other EITI-engaged countries. Timor-Leste's report ranks a little worse than average, as summarized in this excerpt from the RWI website.
La'o Hamutuk received electronic copies 10 days later, in English, Tetum, Portuguese and Bahasa Indonesia. (LH shrunk these files to about 1 MB each; the original higher-resolution files were posted to the websites of SERN and the Ministry of Finances about a month later.) This report was released more than 14 months after the end of the reporting period, in spite of the Government's great pride in becoming EITI-compliant last July. It provides important information about oil and gas revenues during 2009, which comprised about 80% of our economy and paid for 95% of state activities. La'o Hamutuk expects to provide further analysis soon. This report helps to complete other 2009 annual reports which omitted data, including those from the National Petroleum Authority ("The EITI report for 2009 will capture the details of revenues received and distributed.") and the Ministry of Finance on the Petroleum Fund ("The previous report provided by the Auditor and included in the Petroleum Fund Annual Report based on Guidelines adopted by the EITI is no longer deemed necessary as the Government has commenced issuing annual EITI Reports on a separate basis."). | 2011 Durante pre-lansamentu relatoriu EITI Timor-Leste ba dala rua nian, ba tinan 2009, ne’ebe sirkula ona iha fulan Dezembru 2010, iha informasaun ne’ebe lalos husi pajina web Sekertariadu Internasional EITI nian, ne’ebe hateten katak relatoriu EITI Timor-Leste nian publika ona (informasaun ida ne’e sira halo los, hafoin La’o Hamutuk lori asuntu ne’e ba sira). Versaun relatoriu EITI 2009 pre-lansamentu nian hetan ona analiza husi Revenue Watch Institute no halo komparasaun ho relatoriu husi nasaun 22 seluk ne’ebe involve iha EITI. Relatoriu husi Timor-Leste okupa iha numeru ida ne’ebe kiik liu duke media (rata-rata). Konforme parte husi rezumu husi RWI nia website.
La’o Hamutuk simu kopia eletronika ba relatoriu ne’e hafoin loron 10 husi loron lansamentu nian, relatoriu ne’e iha Ingles, Tetum, Portugese no mos Bahasa Indonesia. (LH hamenus dokumentus ne’e ba 1MB, dokumentus ho rezolusaun maka’as publika iha website SERN no Ministeriu Finances durante fulan Abril). Maske Governu orgulhu tamba Timor-Leste sai ona nasaun kumpridor ba EITI nian iha fulan Julhu tinan kotuk, relatoriu EITI ne’e foin lansa depois periodu relatoriu nian remata iha fulan 14 kotuk liu ba. Relatoriu ida ne’e fo informasaun importante nian kona-ba rendimentu mina-rai no gas durante 2009, ne’ebe finansia 80% Timor-Leste nia ekonomia no 95% finansia atividade estadu nian. La'o Hamutuk atu fo analiza tan iha tempu badak. Relatoriu ida ne’e sei kompleta relatoriu annual seluk iha 2009 ne’ebe nia dadus laiha, inklu relatoriu Autoridade Nasional Petroleu ("Relatoriu EITI 2009 nian sei kapta ho deitalhadu ba reseitas ne’ebe simu no reseita ne’ebe distribui.") no Relatoriu Ministeriu Finansa nian kona-ba Fundu Petroleu ("Relatoriu anterior nian ne’ebe prepara husi Auditor no inklui iha Relatoriu Annual Fundu Petroleu bazeia ba Matadalan ne’ebe EITI adopta la presiza ona tamba governu hahu ona atu publika Relatoriu Anual EITI nian ketak.") |
On 25-26 August 2011, the Ministry of Finance hosted a regional EITI conference "Beyond EITI: Timor-Leste Transparency Model" which was opened by President Jose Ramos-Horta and World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani. The following day, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmăo gave a keynote speech, and Finance Minister Emilia Pires opened the Procurement Portal (see page with the largest contracts from 2009-2011). La'o Hamutuk observed that the conference was ignoring some key issues, such as the just-passed laws weakening the Petroleum Fund and enabling borrowing, so we distributed some thoughts to the attendees. A few weeks later, the Ministry of Finance published official notes from the conference. We will post more documents from the conference here as they become available. | Iha loron 25-26 Agosto 2011, Miniseriu Finansas organiza konferensia rejional EITI ho titulu "Beyond EITI: Timor-Leste Transparency Model." Presidente Jose Ramos-Horta (Eng.) no Banku Mundial Managing Director Sri Mulyani loke Konferensa ida ne'e. Loron ida tuir mai, Primeiru Ministru Xanana Gusmăo fo diskursu prinsipal, no Ministra Finansas Emilia Pires loke Portal Aprovisionamentu (hare pajina ida ho kontratu boot liu 2009-2011). La'o Hamutuk hare katak konferensia ida ne'e la fo atensaun ba asuntu importante, hanesan lei rua foin hetan aprovasaun atu hafraku Lei Fundu Petroliferu no kria prosesu atu deve. Entaun ami fahe hanoin balu ba partisipante sira. Ami sei tama dokumentu tan iha ne'e bainhira ami hetan. |
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