Common use of Blended Audits / Remote Audits Clause in Contracts

Blended Audits / Remote Audits. 2.7.1 Blended Audit is a combination of physical on-site auditing and virtual auditing (Remote Audit). Remote Audit can be performed up to 100%. 2.7.2 The contracting parties may agree to apply remote audit technics during the audit to a reasonable extent, provided that this is permitted according to the Accreditation Bodies/ Standard Publisher’s instructions/ Certification Program owners. 2.7.3 The client has to have the appropriate information technology infrastructure and environment (e.g. internet access) in place. 2.7.4 For the remote audit the client has to have all relevant documents available online. 2.7.5 The client shall bear any additional costs (e.g. audit time) incurred by technical problems (e.g. poor internet connection) on the client side.