GCA is committed to impartiality in our management system certification activities.

• GCA does not certify another certification body for its Quality Management System.

• GCA and any part of GCA as legal entity and entities under GCA’s organizational control do not provide Management System Consultancy services.

• GCA and any part of GCA as legal entity and entities under GCA’s organizational control do not conduct internal audits of its certified clients nor offer Internal audit services.

• GCA does not outsource audits to a management system consultancy organization

• GCA activities are not marketed or offered as linked with the activities of an organization that provides management system consultancy. GCA takes action to correct inappropriate links or statements by any consultancy organization stating or implying that certification would be simpler, easier, faster or less expensive if the GCA were used.

• GCA does not state or imply that certification would be simpler, easier, faster or less expensive if a specified consultancy organization were used.

• In order to ensure that there is no conflict of interests, personnel who have provided management system consultancy, including those acting in a managerial capacity, are not to be used by GCA to take part in an audit or other certification activities if they have been involved in management system consultancy towards the client within last two years.

• GCA takes action to respond to any threats to its impartiality arising from the actions of other persons, bodies or organizations.

• GCA and its personnel, either internal or external, or committees, who could influence the certification activities, act impartially and are not allow commercial, financial or other pressures to compromise impartiality.
• GCA requires personnel, internal and external, to reveal any situation known to them that can present them or GCA with a conflict of interests. GCA records and uses this information as input to identifying threats to impartiality raised by the activities of such personnel or by the organizations that employ them, and does not use such personnel, internal or external, unless they can demonstrate that there is no conflict of interest.