On April 24, 2014, Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (Siliconware) earned the distinction of being the first registrant to file a conflict minerals report on Form SD. Here are links to Siliconware’s Form SD and its conflict minerals report. Although the filing deadline is not until June 2, 2014, this example gives registrants a glimpse of what conflict minerals disclosure might look like.
Siliconware reported that its due diligence efforts showed a portion of its products to be “DRC conflict undeterminable” and the remainder to be “DRC conflict free,” as those terms are defined in the Exchange Act. Siliconware chose to use these terms, which were prescribed in the conflict minerals rules, notwithstanding the fact that the requirement to use those specific terms was recently struck down by U.S. Court of Appeals on First Amendment grounds.
Registrants should continue to monitor conflict minerals reports of other registrants as they are filed in order to get a sense of market practice for the conflict minerals disclosure.
