Conflict Mineral Declaration Lifecycle

Conflict Mineral Declarations allow a host company to report whether or not their parts comply with conflict mineral free regulations, meaning that the parts do not contain conflict minerals mined from conflict countries.

The Conflict Material Declaration can be canceled from any state except the Superseded and Rejected states. For all states that require signatures, a comment is optional unless the Conflict Mineral Declaration is being promoted to the Rejected state. The Conflict mineral Declaration lifecycle includes these states:

This page discusses:

Created

An Author, Reader, or Compliance Reviewer, and Compliance Engineer can create Conflict Mineral Declarations for specific suppliers. When created, the app notifies the supplier. The Conflict Mineral Declaration can be promoted to the Requested state or Canceled.

Conflict Mineral Declarations can also be created by importing files provided by suppliers.

Requested

The Supplier Representative works with Conflict Mineral Declaration to provide the required information. The app automatically promotes the declaration to the Approved state when a comment is added to the signature on the Lifecycle page, The Author, Reader, Compliance Reviewer, or Compliance Engineer can approve, reject, or cancel the Conflict Mineral Declaration.

Approved

The Conflict Mineral Declaration can be promoted to the Superseded or Canceled state.

Superseded

When a Conflict Mineral Declaration has been superseded, the Author or Compliance Engineer can delete it but perform no other tasks.

Rejected

If the Conflict Mineral Declaration is rejected, no further actions can be taken. It cannot be demoted, so the process would need to start at the beginning by creating a new Conflict Mineral Declaration.

Canceled

The Author, Reader, Compliance Reviewer, or Compliance Engineer can cancel the Conflict Mineral Declaration. It cannot be demoted, so the process would need to start at the beginning by creating a new Conflict Mineral Declaration.