Church leaders through their statement ask for the legislation to:

• Introduce mandatory requirements for companies to guarantee the respect of human rights, rather than pursuing a voluntary approach as currently proposed.
• Cover a wider range of companies: not only the importers of raw minerals, as currently proposed, should be affected by the law, since this would exclude the large amount of minerals processed abroad and imported into the EU markets already inside finished products.
• Cover more natural resources: the proposed legislation only affects tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold. But the exploitation of other natural resources such as copper and diamonds also can be linked to human rights abuses.