Specialized Disclosure Report (sd)
May 19 2016 - 4:02PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form SD
S
PECIALIZED
D
ISCLOSURE
R
EPORT
C. R. Bard, Inc.
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
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New Jersey
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1-6926
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22-1454160
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(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS Employer
Identification Number)
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730 Central Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ
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07974
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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(Zip Code)
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Samrat S. Khichi
908-277-8000
(Name and
telephone number, including area code, of the person
to contact in connection with this report.)
Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form
applies:
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Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015.
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Section 1 Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
Conflict Minerals Disclosure
This Form SD of C. R. Bard,
Inc. (the Company) is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under Section 13(p) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), for the reporting period January 1, 2015 through
December 31, 2015.
The Company has evaluated its product lines and its supply chain to determine whether its products may contain tin, tantalum,
tungsten or gold, each defined as a conflict mineral pursuant to Section 13(p) of the Exchange Act and Rule 13p-1 and Form SD thereunder, due to the presence of one or more of these minerals in parts obtained from suppliers or from
the utilization of one or more of these minerals in the Companys or its suppliers manufacturing processes in circumstances where the particular mineral or minerals remain in the final product sold by the Company. The Company has
determined that certain of the products it manufactures, or contracts with third parties to manufacture, contain gold, tin, tantalum, or tungsten.
The
Company further determined that these conflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of the products in which they are included (necessary conflict minerals) and therefore undertook a good-faith, reasonable country of
origin inquiry (RCOI) in accordance with its obligations under Section 13(p) of the Exchange Act and Rule 13p-1 and Form SD thereunder, to determine whether any necessary conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC) or an adjoining country (collectively, the Covered Countries) and, if so, whether any such minerals directly or indirectly financed or benefited armed groups in any of the Covered Countries.
The following is a brief summary of our RCOI process, which overlapped substantially with the due diligence measures we undertook after being unable to
determine, with respect to at least some of the Companys products, either: (1) the country or countries of origin of all of our necessary conflict minerals; or (2) that the necessary conflict materials came from scrap or recycled
materials.
After concluding that conflict minerals are necessary to the functionality or production of some of its products, the Company conducted a
good-faith RCOI to determine whether any of its products, including components or parts thereof, or manufacturing processes contained conflict minerals that originated in a Covered Country. The Company identified approximately 210 known direct
suppliers, or Tier 1 suppliers, of products or components that potentially contain the necessary conflict minerals and requested those suppliers disclose whether such products or components contained the necessary conflict minerals and if so, to
provide the Company with country of origin, processing facility and/or mine or other extraction point information with respect to such necessary conflict minerals. Our information request was based on a model supplier inquiry letter created by The
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as part of the OECDs Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas, Second Edition, including the
supplements on tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (the OECD Due Diligence Guidance). The Company requested these Tier 1 suppliers provide their responses through a software tool, which included the EICC-GeSIs Conflict-Free
Sourcing Initative reporting template.
The Companys due diligence process was a continuation of its RCOI process for those Tier 1 suppliers that
indicated in their response that they supplied necessary conflict minerals to the Company and the Company went on to exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of these conflict minerals, as discussed more fully in the attached
Conflict Minerals Report.
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A copy of the Companys Conflict Minerals Report is provided as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD and, together
with our Form SD, is publicly available at http://www.crbard.com/Social-Responsibility/Conflict-Minerals.html. The content of any website referred to in this Form SD or the attached Conflict Minerals Report is not incorporated by reference into this
Form SD or the attached Conflict Minerals Report (Exhibit 1.01 hereto).
Item 1.02 Exhibit
As specified in Section 2, Item 2.01 of this Form SD, the Company is hereby filing its Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this report.
Section 2 Exhibits
Item 2.01
Exhibits
Exhibit 1.01 Conflict Minerals Report of C. R. Bard, Inc. as required by Items 1.01 and 1.02 of this Form SD.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly
authorized undersigned.
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C. R. BARD, INC.
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By:
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/s/ Christopher S.
Holland
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Name:
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Christopher S. Holland
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Title:
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Senior Vice President and
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Chief Financial Officer
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Date:
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May 19, 2016
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