A technical service, including its personnel, shall be independent and shall carry out the activities for which it has been designated with the highest degree of professional integrity and the requisite technical competence in the specific field in which it operates and shall be free from all pressures and inducements, particularly financial, that might influence its judgment or the results of its assessment activities, in particular such pressures or inducements emanating from persons or groups of persons with an interest in the results of those activities.
Beidh seirbhís theicniúil, agus a pearsanra, neamhspleách agus déanfaidh sí na gníomhaíochtaí dár ainmníodh í le hard-ionracas gairmiúil agus leis an inniúlacht theicniúil riachtanach sa réimse sonrach ina mbíonn sí ag feidhmiú agus beidh sí saor ó gach brú agus mealladh, ó thaobh airgid go háirithe, a bhféadfadh tionchar a bheith aige ar a bhreithiúnas nó ar thorthaí a gníomhaíochtaí measúnaithe, go háirithe brú agus mealladh ó dhaoine nó ó ghrúpaí daoine a bhfuil leas acu i dtorthaí na ngníomhaíochtaí sin.