Notified bodies and the personnel of notified bodies shall carry out their conformity assessment activities with the highest degree of professional integrity and the requisite technical and scientific competence in the specific field and shall be free from all pressures and inducements, particularly financial, which might influence their judgement or the results of their conformity assessment activities, especially as regards persons or groups with an interest in the results of those activities.
Déanfaidh comhlachtaí dá dtugtar fógra agus pearsanra na gcomhlachtaí dá dtugtar fógra a gcuid gníomhaíochtaí um measúnú comhréireachta leis an oiread ionracais ghairmiúil is féidir agus leis an inniúlacht theicniúil agus eolaíoch is gá sa réimse sonrach sin, agus beidh siad saor ó gach cineál brú agus meallta, go háirithe ó thaobh airgeadais, a bhféadfadh tionchar a bheith acu ar a mbreithiúnas nó ar thorthaí a ngníomhaíochtaí um measúnú comhréireachta, go háirithe a mhéid a bhaineann le daoine nó le grúpaí a mbeadh leas acu i dtorthaí na ngníomhaíochtaí sin.