Conformity assessment bodies and their personnel shall carry out the conformity assessment activities with the highest degree of professional integrity and the requisite technical 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 of persons with an interest in the results of those activities.
Déanfaidh na comhlachtaí um measúnú comhréireachta agus a bpearsanra na gníomhaíochtaí um measúnú comhréireachta a chur i gcrích leis an oiread ionracais ghairmiúil is féidir agus leis an inniúlacht theicniúil is gá sa réimse sonrach sin, agus beidh siad saor ó gach cineál brú agus meallta, go háirithe brú agus mealladh 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 grúpaí a mbeadh leas acu i dtorthaí na ngníomhaíochtaí sin.