Statement of Impartiality

Certification body, its management and its internal and external employees understand the importance of impartiality safeguarding and the threat of any potential conflict of interests in carrying out its certification activities. Our certification body has developed and maintained a strict impartiality policy in order to eliminate any threats to impartiality and to improve the confidence in our certification service. Further, annually an independent impartiality committee assesses provided certification activities and related potential impartiality threats. Threats related to objectivity and impartiality of the body are addressed further through binding personnel statements to ensure that all activities undertaken by the certification body are conducted in an impartial and independent manner and to reveal any situation known to our personnel that may expose our body to a conflict of interests.