Shenzhen Huakai Inspection & Certification Co., Ltd. (HIC) is a third-party certification body that has the legal personality and independently assumes civil liability as well as provides management system certification service for all walks of life.

Following statements are established to ensure the impartiality and effectiveness of certification:

1．With conformance to relevant statutes and regulations of nation and the quality policy of our company, we shall conduct certification activity within the business scopes approved by CNAS / IAS.

2．We shall implement the certification activity with impartiality and opening for any

organization((except the countries or location as stated in clause 3) that apply for certification voluntarily and carry out the certification procedures on the basis of standard and regulations. If it needs to make an explanation for the usage of above-mentioned documents in some specific certification project, technical committee of our company shall organize relevant experts to compile audit operation instruction which is implemented after approval. Certification activity is only carried out within approved scopes and does not be influenced by any factor that may affect impartiality of certification result. Any inequitable activity shall not be taken, for instance, it handles applicant’s work with priority or delay.

3．HIC conducts certification activity depending on strict work discipline and perfect

management actions and our staff shall not contract the certification quantity or economic indices of our company. And we shall ensure to keep secret of organization information and safeguard their profits.

4. We always complies with the requirements of ISO/IEC17021-1:2015 "Conformity

assessment-Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management

systems-Part 1: Requirements" and "CNAS-R02 Rules of impartiality and confidentiality". Sign certification contract independently, and do not sign consultation certification "one-stop" contract. We and its related institutions (including its shareholders) do not engage in any technical consulting activities related to the company's certification business.

5．We shall not conduct the certification work for profiting and develop market with unjustified ways. Certification charge shall be executed as the specifications of nation.

6．Service provided by our company shall be opened for all clients(except the countries or locations as stated in clause 3) without attaching unjustified financial or other conditions. And we shall not limit any organization according to its scale or whether it is the member of certain association or league as well as the quantity of certified organization.

7． We provide following specifications for certification audit personnel:

a)  Auditors shall not be engaged in consulting activity by any means;

b) Auditors who have provided consultation for the client of proposed certification in recent two years shall not participate in the certification activity of this organization;

c)  They shall conform to the regulations of the clause 15 in “Certification Accreditation Rule of  PRC”

8．HIC shall not conduct training for the organization that has obtained the certification registration of our company or has entrusted our company to register certification. All training shall be conducted for society, which ensures that training business cannot affect impartiality

of certification.

9．We shall ensure that all staff, relevant bodies, subcontractors and auditors shall handle matters impartially and do not make benefit through their rights, and do work without falsification, also do not offer the priority or delay to client for the interests of individual, group or other parties. If there is violation, it shall be punished HIC.

10．We shall make applicable arrangement in compliance with relevant law and regulations of accreditation body to ensure that all levels (including Safeguarding Impartiality Committee, technical committee, and external personnel) keep confidentiality for achieved information on the process of certification. 

11．In addition to the requirements of accreditation or law, the relevant information of specific product or applicant shall not be leaked to the third party without written approval of applicant. When the information must be provided for the third party according to law’s requirement, our company shall communicate the provided information to applicant.

12.All the working staff including Safeguarding Impartiality Committee, technical committee, technical expert, full-time and part-time auditors shall sign the “impartiality and confidentiality statement” when signing the employment contract and make a commitment to comply with each requirement of impartiality and confidentiality