Governance

Structure

Several of the documents referred to in this section are provided in the Other Resources section of the Library page on this website.

PERC’s organisation structure is defined in the PERC Statutes, which were originally adopted in 2015, and last amended in October 2022.  The Statutes specify PERC’s Terms of Reference, together with details of PERC’s Governance and Structure; Meetings, Financial Matters, Trustees and Language.

PERC membership is open to relevant professional bodies and representatives from significant mineral industry sectors in European countries.

Currently PERC members include four representatives from each of the six parent organisations, together with individual co-opted representatives representing different interests and sectors of the minerals industry.

In March 2022, PERC adopted a standard procedure for assessing applications by organisations to join PERC, together with the procedures used for assessing applications to be added to the PERC list of Recognised Professional Organisations. The relevant Policy document and accompanying RPO checklist are provided in the Other Resources section of the library.

Participating Organisations

Members

Trustees

For statutory purposes PERC is represented by at least three Trustees who take formal responsibility for the actions of PERC. The Trustees collectively are the sole governing body of PERC. The day to day administration of PERC is undertaken by the Executive.

PERC Executive

The PERC Executive consists of the following officers: Chairperson; Deputy Chairperson; Secretary; Treasurer; and PERC’s two representatives to CRIRSCO. The PERC Executive is responsible for the day to day administration of PERC.

Sub-committees

In addition to the activities of the PERC Executive much of the work done on behalf of PERC, outside of our annual AGMs, is carried out by the PERC sub-committees.  At present we have four permanent committees, namely:

• Standard Update Sub-Committee: Responsible for Maintenance and development of the PERC Reporting Standard
• Training Sub-Committee: Responsible for coordinating the development and provision of training courses
• Communications Sub-Committee: Developing and implementing PERC’s communications strategy
• Finance and Regulatory Sub-Committee: Responsible for establishing communication with regulators and with financial institutions

If you are interested in finding out more about the role played by the PERC committees, please refer to the PERC Sub-committee terms of reference: PERC Sub-committees Terms of Reference.

The names of the Chair and members of the sub-committees are given below.

• Standard Update Sub-Committee:

Chair: David Dingemans

Members: Edmund Sides, Andy Birtles, Mark Burnett, Alastair Moyes, Fiona Cessford, Liz de Klerk, Jesús Montero, Janne Hokka, Marco Cosi, Ruth Allington, Christian Degen, José Antonio Espí

• Training Sub-Committee: 

Chair: Alastair Moyes

Members: Edmund Sides, Mark Burnett, Marco Cosi, Tracey Laight, Manuel Martinez Pelayo, Paula Mierwza, David Govoni, Louis Chambel

• Communications Sub-Committee: 

Chair: Andrew Birtles

Members: Mark Burnett, Emma Brosnann, Bernd Schürmann, Christian Degen, Magnus Johansson, James McFarlane, Christian Peña Narciso, Anita Stein,  Paulo Romero, Paula Mierzwa, Steinar Ellefmo, Ally O’Brien

• Finance and Regulatory Sub-Committee: 

Chair: Robert Palmer

Members: Edmund Sides, Owen Herod, Antonio Maldonado, Mark Burnett,  Pim Demecheleer, Christian Masurenko, Job Langbroek, Markku Iljina, Marco Cosi, Kerstin Brinnen,  Remi Bosc, James McFarlane, Christian Schaffalitzky, Julie Hester-Lucas

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