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Impartiality

OUR COMMITMENT

Impartiality Policy

FV Certifications Private Limited is committed to maintaining the highest standards of impartiality, independence, integrity, and objectivity in all its activities, including management system consultancy, auditing, certification, and third-party inspection services.

The Top Management recognizes the importance of impartiality in ensuring confidence in our services and is committed to conducting all applicable conformity assessment activities in an impartial, transparent, and non-discriminatory manner.

Impartiality Independence Integrity
FAIR • INDEPENDENT • OBJECTIVE

Trust Through Impartiality

Objective assessment. Transparent decisions. Professional integrity.

POLICY STATEMENT

Our Commitment to Impartiality

Impartiality is fundamental to maintaining confidence in our conformity assessment activities and the reliability of our services.

Safeguarding Impartiality

The company shall ensure that all activities are structured, managed, and performed to safeguard impartiality. Personnel involved in consultancy, auditing, certification, and third-party inspection shall act objectively and professionally, free from conflicts of interest, bias, undue influence, or any form of pressure.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Identifying and Managing Impartiality Risks

We identify, assess and monitor potential threats to impartiality and apply appropriate controls to protect independent decision-making.

Ongoing Risk Assessment

FV Certifications Private Limited shall identify, analyse, evaluate, and monitor risks to impartiality on an ongoing basis. Identified risks shall be eliminated or minimized through appropriate controls, documented risk assessments, and effective corrective actions, as necessary.

Ownership & Governance

Risks arising from ownership, governance and management arrangements.

Personnel

Potential conflicts involving personnel and their professional relationships.

Financial Arrangements

Financial interests or arrangements that may influence impartiality.

Business Relationships

Contractual relationships, shared resources, referrals and marketing activities.

Consultancy Engagements

Risks connected with consultancy and other business engagements.

Undue Influence

Commercial, financial or other pressures that could affect decisions.

INDEPENDENT DECISION-MAKING
OBJECTIVITY & INTEGRITY

Decisions Based on Objective Evidence

The company shall ensure that commercial, financial, or other pressures do not compromise impartiality. Decisions relating to auditing, certification, and third-party inspection shall be based on objective evidence, applicable requirements, and established evaluation criteria, without undue influence from clients, consultants, management, or other interested parties.

Where applicable, appropriate arrangements shall be established to ensure impartiality in decision-making, including the involvement of relevant interested parties through impartiality committees or other suitable mechanisms.

Evidence-based decisions
Transparent evaluation criteria
Appropriate impartiality safeguards
CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Maintaining Professional Independence

Confidentiality

The company shall maintain confidentiality and protect information entrusted to it during its activities.

Conflict Disclosure

Personnel shall disclose any actual or potential conflicts that may affect their independence or objectivity.

Appropriate Safeguards

Where management system consultancy services are provided, appropriate safeguards shall prevent conflicts of interest or compromise of impartiality in auditing, certification and third-party inspection.

No person shall be involved in decisions where their impartiality may be compromised.

COMMUNICATION & REVIEW

Policy Communication and Continual Review

This policy shall be communicated to all employees, auditors, inspectors, consultants, and relevant interested parties. It shall be periodically reviewed to ensure its continuing suitability and effectiveness.

This policy is publicly available through the company's website and shall be made available to relevant interested parties upon request.

OFFICIAL POLICY STATEMENT

For FV Certifications Private Limited

Authorized Signatory Baskar Gurusamy
Designation Managing Director
Date 06.04.2022
Place Avadi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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