Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition
EICC Weekly Bulletin 
  May 14, 2009
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Operations: John Flatley
Communications: Brad Cameron
Membership Services: Carrie Hoffman or Grant Feichtinger

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In This Issue 
 

VAPValidated Audit Process Launch

EICC and GeSI launched the 2009 Validated Audit Process (VAP) on April 30. The schedule for the VAP 2009 China cycle has been set, and is provided with additional information and contract templates HERE. If you do not have access to the SharePoint site, contact Grant Feichtinger. Please note these critical dates:

  1. Email your intent to participate in the VAP to Phylmar@eicc.info by May 14, 2009.
  2. Prepare for the audit selection Process by having your companies specific auditee list ready by May 15, 2009.
  3. Primary contacts will be invited to an optional conference call/LiveMeeting to walk through Audit Selection Process & Q&A for May 21, 2009 at 9am Pacific/12pm Easter (watch for an Outlook invite from EICC)
  4. IMPORTANT: Sign and return the EICC non-disclosure agreement and the EICC Audit Purchase Base Agreement by May 21, 2009 to Phylmar@eicc.info.
  5. All EICC Primary contacts will receive the "Master Audit List_VAP2009" excel file, (also posted HERE).  Please review the instructions and use this file to submit sites for the VAP selection process and return to audits@eicc.info by May 29, 2009.

Future regional cycles will be announced through the Bulletin. A webinar was held on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 and is available for on demand viewing HERE. 
Please direct all VAP questions to audits@eicc.info or Phylmar@eicc.info.

MappingSupply Chain Mapping Project

Attention primary EICC contacts: please forward this Bulletin to the appropriate person in your company who can help us identify suppliers. The deadline has been extended until May 22.

The Extractives Work Group in conjunction with the GeSI Supply Chain Work Group has contracted with Resolve (consultant) to perform supply chain mapping of tin, tantalum, and cobalt based on the recommendation of the 2008 joint EICC/GeSI study. The scope of work is:
  1. Create a transparency model to identify companies in the electronic supply chain.
  2. Determine whether identified companies have a social responsibility code of conduct.
  3. Identify challenges incurred in collecting this information.
  4. Provide guidance on a systemic process to maintain the transparency model.
EICC member companies (with paid-in-full 2009 dues) are eligible to participate in this activity at no additional cost.

Please complete the supplier template, found HERE, and return it to Grant Feichtinger by Friday, May 22. EICC staff will consolidate the input and identify five suppliers associated with each of the three metals. The information will be used for modeling. Resolve will not have access to the company-supplier relationships identified in the harvesting activity, and no commercial relationships will be revealed.

For more information see EICC 2009 Extractives Goals_Final 04Feb2009 and 2009_Research_RFP_17Feb2009.

Please contact Grant Feichtinger with questions or concerns.
 
CommodityCommodity Manager Training Is Ready for Download
 
The downloadable version of the Commodity Manager training is available on SharePoint at http://eicc.bsr.org/commodity_manager/default.aspx.
WebinarRecordingEICC May Membership Meeting Materials Now Available 

EICC held a European Regional meeting on May 7 at Philips headquarters in Amsterdam.  The meeting was attended by 27 EICC members, and included an afternoon webinar session that had 32 additional participants from the U.S. And Asia.  EICC members may view minutes for the sessions here.  The presentations may be viewed here.  The 2-hour webinar was recorded, and may be viewed here.

Please contact Brad Cameron if you have questions or need additional information.

BoardFrom the Board

The EICC Board took the following actions this week:
  • Received updates on development of the China Suppliers Training Event, which will be held June 10-11. 180 attendees have registered, and as many as 200 are expected.
  • Discussed a time line for the upcoming Board election, including for distribution of nomination forms which will be available next week.
  • Began planning for the next EICC membership meeting, which is tentatively planned for Sep. 29-Oct. 1 in Chandler, AZ.  The event may also include a stakeholder engagement session.
SOMONew SOMO Report on supply chain policies and practices

SOMO has released a new report titled "Computer Connections: Supply chain policies and practices of seven computer companies" that contains references to EICC, the code, and some EICC member companies. A copy of the report can be viewed here.