The standards we hold ourselves to.

Kenya’s Mining Act makes a Community Development Agreement a condition of large-scale mineral rights. We regard that as a floor, not a target.

A mining business that has to be compelled into a community agreement has already lost the relationship that matters most to it.

Boocom Mining’s operations are just starting. Engagement with the communities around them is being set up alongside the operations themselves.

Progress here as Boocom’s operations are established, and any Community Development Agreement once it is in place.

Mining and haulage are both licensed under Kenya’s environmental framework, and both require an environmental impact assessment before operations begin.

The Group treats those assessments as a design input, not a filing.

Environmental assessment and licensing are being put in place as Boocom’s operations start. No licence is listed below until it has been granted.

• No licences are listed yet. Each appears here, dated, once granted.

Each licence, with the date it was granted, as it is granted.

Everyone who works in or around a Group operation — employees, contractors and neighbours — should go home in the condition they arrived.

Each company is responsible for the safety of its own operations, and the Group holds every company to the same standard.

Safety systems for Boocom’s operations are being set up as those operations start.

The Group’s health and safety policy, once it is adopted.

Anyone — inside the Group or outside it — should be able to raise a concern about conduct at any Group company, and know it will be read.

A dedicated channel is being set up. Until it’s in place, email info@aptilagroup.com with “Confidential” in the subject line.

The dedicated channel, once it is in place — here and on the contact page.