Emcore designs and manufactures Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber optics market. Emcore is a provider of optical components, as well as complete end-to-end solutions for high-speed communications network infrastructures enabling systems and service providers to meet growing demand for bandwidth and connectivity. Emcore's advance optical technologies are designed for Cable Television (CATV), Fiber-To-The-Premises (FTTP) networks, telecommunications and data centers, satellite communications, aerospace and defense, wireless networks, and broadcast and professional audio/video systems. With its InP semiconductor wafer fabrication facility, Emcore has fully vertically-integrated manufacturing capability and also provides contract design, foundry and component packaging services.

As described in this CMR, certain of Emcore’s operations manufacture, or contract to manufacture, products that contain Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. However, we do not directly source Conflict Minerals from mines, smelters or refiners. We believe that, in most cases, we are several steps removed in the supply chain from these market participants, limiting our influence over their sourcing. We must therefore rely on our direct suppliers to provide information regarding the origin of necessary Conflict Minerals that are included in our products, including sources of Conflict Minerals that are supplied to them by sub-tier suppliers.

Emcore is committed to responsible sourcing from its suppliers and each supplier is required to warrant that it has policies and procedures in place to determine whether parts and products supplied to Emcore are DRC conflict free (i.e., do not contain metals derived from "Conflict Minerals"). Each of our suppliers must further warrant that it has established policies, due diligence frameworks, and management systems consistent with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. Upon Emcore’s request, each of our suppliers shall permit Emcore to audit its practices and procedures and shall provide Emcore with any information reasonably requested. In addition, each supplier agrees to provide information to Emcore necessary for Emcore to comply with its conflict minerals reporting requirements, including without limitation information under the Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative Conflict Minerals Reporting Template. Our Conflict Minerals Policy is available on our corporate website at http://emcore.com/our-company/quality-management/supply-chain-management/

III.     Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry Information

Emcore has conducted a good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry (“RCOI”) to determine whether the necessary Conflict Minerals included in and necessary to the functionality of our products described under “Product Description” in Section V below originated in the Covered Countries or came from recycled or scrap sources. We engaged a leading Conflict Minerals data management consultant (the “Consultant”) to assist us in conducting this RCOI.

To the extent applicable, Emcore’s RCOI utilized the same processes and procedures as for our due diligence described in Section IV below. This RCOI process included conducting an inquiry of our direct suppliers using a mechanism common in the technology industry: the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative’s (“CFSI”) Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (“CMRT”). Based on the results of our RCOI, we are required to exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the necessary Conflict Minerals contained in our products. Our due diligence efforts are discussed further in Section IV of this CMR.

IV.    Due Diligence Process and Measures Performed

(i)      Conformity to a Recognized Due Diligence Framework

Emcore’s due diligence measures have been designed to conform in all material respects to the internationally-recognized due diligence framework of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chain of Minerals from Conflict- Affected and High-Risk Areas (Second Edition), and its related supplements. This OECD framework (“Framework”) is the only due diligence framework recognized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to date. The Framework stresses five main areas of Due Diligence design, detailed below in IV(i)(a) - (e).

a.      Establish Strong Company Management Systems

First, Emcore has assigned a Senior Director of Operations to (i) manage the Conflict Minerals compliance program, (ii) liaise with the Consultant, (iii) conduct reviews of collected data, and (iv) make decisions regarding the due diligence program, including risk mitigation. Second, Emcore has requested that suppliers of goods incorporated into our products provide us with Conflict Mineral declarations for their products (see below, §§ IV(i)(b & c)). Third, Emcore’s position statement with respect to Conflict Minerals, which is located on our website (at http://www.emcore.com/wp-content/uploads/EMCORE-Conflict-Minerals-Policy-Statement.pdf), encourages our suppliers to source responsibly, through their sub-suppliers and on down through their own supply chains. In this position statement, we encourage our suppliers and their sub-suppliers to use Conflict-Free Smelter (“CFS”) certified smelters wherever possible, (Under the CFS program, the CFSI, an organization founded by members of the Electronic Industry Citizen Coalition (“EICC”) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (“GeSI”), is taking action to address responsible sourcing, using independent third-party audits to identify smelters and refiners that have systems in place to assure sourcing of only conflict-free materials.)

b.      Identify and Assess Risk in the Supply Chain

c.      Design and implement a Strategy to Respond to Identified Risks

d.      Carry Out Independent Third Party Audit of Supply Chain Due Diligence at Identified Points in the Supply Chain

e.      Report on Supply Chain Due Diligence

Our Form SD and this CMR are both available under “Supply Chain Management” in the Company section of our website at http://www.emcore.com/company/supply-chain-management/. Emcore will file a Form SD (and CMRs, as necessary) with the SEC on an annual basis, pursuant to Rule 13p-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

V.    Product Description; Processing Facilities

Product Description - Currently, EMCORE’s business is of a broad portfolio of compound semiconductor-based products for the fiber optics markets.

These include lasers, photodetectors, and various forms of packaged subassemblies, bare die (or chip), transmitter optical subassemblies (TOSA), distributed feedback (DFB) lasers, positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) and avalanche photodiode (APD) components for 10 Gb/s Ethernet, InfiniBand, FTTP, and telecom applications.

These include forward and return-path analog and digital lasers, photodetectors and subassembly components, broadcast analog and digital fiber-optic transmitters, and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmitters and receivers.

These include FTTP components and subsystem products to support plans by telephone companies to offer voice, video, and data services through the deployment of new fiber optics-based access networks, including passive optical network (PON) transceivers, radio frequency over glass (RFoG) optical transceivers, analog fiber optic transmitters for video overlay and high-power erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA), analog and digital lasers, photodetectors and subassembly components, analog video receivers, and multi-dwelling unit (MDU) video receivers.

These include transmitters, receivers, subsystems, and systems that transport wideband radio frequency and microwave signals between satellite hub equipment and antenna dishes.

These include video, audio, data, and RF transmission systems.

These include fiber optic gyro components used in commercial and military applications, high-frequency RF fiber optic link components for towed decoy systems, optical delay lines for radar systems, erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, pulse lasers for light detection and ranging (LIDAR) spectroscopy systems and other products.

Processing Facilities - Based on our RCOI or due diligence process, as applicable, and the information received from our suppliers, the facilities listed on Annex A were identified by the Company’s suppliers as the smelters and refiners that processed the 3TG present in and necessary to the functionality of products manufactured by the Company in the calendar year 2015.

Due to our position in the supply chain, which we discuss above, we rely on our suppliers for accurate smelter and refiner information. Our due diligence measures cannot provide adequate certainty regarding the source and chain of custody of the necessary Conflict Minerals contained in our in-scope products. The information from our suppliers is still evolving and may contain company level declarations. As such, this smelter list is presented in good faith as the best information we have to date. This list may contain smelters that are not in our supply chain and there may be other smelters not yet identified in our due diligence process. We will continue to update the list as our information and the relevant third-party data from CFSI, LBMA, and RJC improves.

VI.    Future Due Diligence

We will continue to communicate our expectations and information requirements to our direct suppliers. Over time, we anticipate that the amount of information globally on the traceability and sourcing of the necessary Conflict Minerals in our products will increase and improve our knowledge. We will continue to make inquiries to our direct suppliers and undertake additional risk assessments when potentially relevant changes in facts or circumstances are identified. If we become aware of a supplier whose due diligence needs improvement, we may continue the trade relationship while that supplier improves its compliance program. We expect our suppliers to take similar measures with their suppliers to ensure alignment throughout the supply chain.

In addition to those above, the Company will undertake the following steps during the next compliance period:

Smelter and Refiner Information