Step 4 — Independent 3rd Party Audit of Smelter/Refiner/ key point of trans­for­ma­tion Due Diligence Practices

Support audit of smelter/refiner/key point of trans­for­ma­tion by:

• Providing finan­cial support to promote inde­pen­dent 3rd party audits of refiners and smelters
• Strengthen industry programmes by partic­i­pating through member­ship or promoting smelters and refiners partic­i­pa­tion in audit programmes
• Periodically assessing the quality of industry-led vali­da­tion programmes or inde­pen­dent smelter/refiner audits, if they choose to partic­i­pate in such a scheme