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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-22-018087"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGLD"
cik: "0000085535"
company_name: "ROYAL GOLD INC"
filed_at: "2022-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T16:16:57.877098+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Royal Gold amends code of ethics to prohibit board service at competitors

## Summary
- Board approved amendment on November 15, 2022.
- New provision prohibits employees and directors from serving on a competitor's board.
- Full amended Code of Business Conduct and Ethics filed as Exhibit 14.1.
- Amendment effective immediately upon board approval.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-22-018087
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGLD
- cik: 0000085535
- company_name: ROYAL GOLD INC
- filed_at: 2022-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/85535/000155837022018087/0001558370-22-018087-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/85535/000155837022018087/rgld-20221115x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-22-018087.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ROYAL GOLD INC: Approved an amendment to the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics to prohibit service on the board of a competitor (effective 2022-11-15).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2022-11-15
  source text: On November 15, 2022, the Board of Directors of Royal Gold, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an amendment to the Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code”) to prohibit service on the board of a competitor.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/85535/000155837022018087/0001558370-22-018087-index.htm

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