A planned certification scheme to prevent warlords funding their militias by selling minerals to European firms has been delayed...and fears are growing for its future...An EU spokesperson [said] the Commission was “still working on the impact assessment, which should be finalised by the end of the year so that a proposal can be brought before the college [of EU commissioners] early next year.”...“It's critical that the Commission, with the backing and encouragement of MEPs, keeps the momentum, and at the very least gets the proposal to the point where it will be considered by the next parliament,” [said Zobel Behalal, a spokesman for CCFD Terre-Solidaire]...[C]ampaigners say that policy-makers have been lobbied hard by 12 large German mineral extraction firms. [Refers to Coca-Cola, Philips]