Common use of General provisions Clause in Contracts

General provisions. 1.1.1 The client is obliged to present the Contractor with all information necessary for the standard to be certified. This can be done using the completed form entitled 1.1.2 The client will provide all the necessary documents before the certification body’s audit. In particular, this may include: 1.1.3 The client and the Contractor may arrange a pre-audit, the scope of which can be jointly agreed on. 1.1.4 The audit at the company will verify the effectiveness of the implemented management system or processes. 1.1.5 At the end of the audit, the client will be informed about the audit result at a closing meeting. The result is documented later in an audit report. Nonconformities are documented and can, where necessary, lead to a follow-up audit based on the results (i.e. reverification on site) or to the submission of new documents. The audit team leader will decide on the scope of the follow-up audit. For a follow-up audit, only those standards requirements are audited which were not fulfilled in the original audit. 1.1.6 „Certificates” means all conformity statements listed below, e.g. official records, statements of validity, and certificates in the narrow sense of the word. „Certification” means all evaluation, auditing, validation and certification processes. Based on these tests, the decision for granting, denying, maintaining, expanding or reducing the scope, 1.1.7 To maintain the validity of the certificate, on-site surveillance audits are to be carried out depending on the respective standard. If the surveillance process is not 1.1.8 In a surveillance audit, the essential standard requirements are verified as a minimum. In addition, an assessment is made regarding the proper use of the certificate (and of the certification mark, if applicable), regarding complaints concerning the management system the process or the certified product and regarding the effectiveness of corrective actions related to the noncon-formities from the previous audits. After each surveillance audit, the client receives a report. 1.1.9 During surveillance and recertification audits or during an audit scheduled specifically for this purpose, extensions/ reductions to the geographical (e.g. additional sites) and technical (e.g. additional products) scope of validity are possible, as are additions to the evidence of standards. The number of audit days depends on the scope of the extension, which is to be defined clearly by the client and regulated by contract before the company is audited. 1.1.10 If in the course of the contract term there are changes to procedural requirements (e.g. company data, accreditation requirements), the changes must be taken into account accordingly in the process, and the contractual partner must be informed immediately. This also applies to any resulting nec-essary changes to the number of audit days. 1.1.11 Integrated management systems of different standards and evidence requirements can be certified in a combined process. Depending on the evidence requirements, these may be offered individually.

General provisions. 1.1.1 The client is obliged to present the Contractor with all information necessary for the standard to be certified. This can be done using the completed form entitled 1.1.2 The client will provide all the necessary documents before the certification body’s audit. In particular, this may include: 1.1.3 The client and the Contractor may arrange a pre-audit, the scope of which can be jointly agreed on. 1.1.4 The audit at the company will verify the effectiveness of the implemented management system or processes.system. During the audit, the company will demonstrate the practical application 1.1.5 At the end of the audit, the client will be informed about the audit result at a closing meeting. The result is documented later in an audit report. Nonconformities are documented and can, where necessary, lead to a follow-up audit based on the results (i.e. reverification on site) or to the submission of new documents. The audit team leader will decide on the scope of the follow-up audit. For a follow-up audit, only on-ly those standards requirements are audited which were not fulfilled in the original audit. 1.1.6 „Certificates” means all conformity statements listed below, e.g. official recordsrec-ords, statements of validity, and certificates in the narrow sense of the word. „Certification” means all evaluation, auditing, validation and certification processes. Based on these tests, the decision for granting, denying, maintaining, expanding or reducing the scope, 1.1.7 To maintain the validity of the certificate, on-site surveillance audits are to be carried out depending on the respective standard. If the surveillance process is not 1.1.8 In a surveillance audit, the essential standard requirements are verified as a minimum. In addition, an assessment is made regarding the proper use of the certificate (and of the certification mark, if applicable), regarding complaints concerning the management system the process or the certified product and regarding the effectiveness of corrective actions related to the noncon-formities nonconformities from the previous audits. After each surveillance audit, the client receives a report. 1.1.9 During surveillance and recertification audits or during an audit scheduled specifically for this purpose, extensions/ reductions to the geographical (e.g. additional sites) and technical (e.g. additional products) scope of validity are possible, as are additions to the evidence of standards. The number of audit days depends on the scope of the extension, which is to be defined clearly by the client and regulated by contract before the company is audited. 1.1.10 If in the course of the contract term there are changes to procedural requirements (e.g. company data, accreditation requirements), the changes must be taken into account accordingly in the process, and the contractual partner must be informed immediately. This also applies to any resulting nec-essary necessary changes to the number of audit days. 1.1.11 Integrated management systems of different standards and evidence requirements can be certified in a combined process. Depending on the evidence requirements, these may be offered individually.