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Implementation

​Open Ownership’s technical and policy experts provide support and guidance on all aspects of how to implement beneficial ownership transparency reforms.

This page features some of our most-used tools and guidance, including the Open Ownership Principles and an overview of our Opening Extractives programme, undertaken jointly with the EITI. You can also browse our full range of resources which support implementation using the search function.

  • Implementation guide stages
    Guidance

    Guide to implementing beneficial ownership transparency

    This Guide provides resources for those implementing beneficial ownership transparency. It covers the full implementation journey, including initial commitments, developing a robust legal framework, designing data collection systems, building registers and making data available

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    Principles for Effective Beneficial Ownership Disclosure

    The Open Ownership Principles set out best practice standards for effective beneficial ownership disclosure

Implementation in practice

  • Opening Extractives

    Opening Extractives

    Opening Extractives will provide sustained, multi-year support to partner countries to disclose the ownership of extractive companies and is a joint project by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) International Secretariat and Open Ownership

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    Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

    The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard is an open standard providing guidance for collecting, sharing and using high-quality data on beneficial ownership

  • BOVS example
    Guidance

    Beneficial Ownership Visualisation System

    The Beneficial Ownership Visualisation System specifies how to illustrate beneficial ownership structures using diagrams

Latest publications

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    Briefing

    Designing sanctions and their enforcement for beneficial ownership disclosure

    Having adequate sanctions in place, and enforcing them effectively, can drive up compliance with disclosure requirements and increase the accuracy and usability of beneficial ownership data

    Written by Ramandeep Kaur Chhina, Tymon Kiepe

    Published: 28 April 2022

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    Guidance Opening Extractives

    Relational database design considerations for beneficial ownership information

    This document provides technical guidance on considerations for relational database design when building a system that holds beneficial ownership information.

    Written by Opening Extractives

    Published: 16 December 2021

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    Consultation

    Revisions to Draft Companies (Beneficial Ownership Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 – Public Consultation

    Open Ownership’s response to a December 2021 public consultation by Kenya’s Business Registration Service on the Draft Companies (Beneficial Ownership Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

    Published: 01 December 2021

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