Inbrief

Major changes to the way the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is organized were agreed in Oslo last month. Members of the initiative, which promotes greater transparency in revenue payments by oil, gas and mining companies to officials in developing countries, accepted the recommendations of an international advisory group that it create a board supported by a secretariat of six full-time staff at cost of up to $15million (£7.98m) (EP8, issue 5, p6).