The technical service shall carry out the categories of activities for which it has been designated with the highest degree of professional integrity and the requisite technical competence in the specific field, and its personnel shall be free from any pressure or inducements, particularly financial, which might influence its judgment or the results of its assessment activities, especially such pressure or inducements emanating from persons or groups of persons with an interest in the results of those activities.
Déanfaidh an tseirbhís theicniúil na catagóirí gníomhaíochtaí dár ainmníodh í leis an ionracas gairmiúil is mó is féidir agus an inniúlacht theicniúil riachtanach sa réimse sonrach agus beidh a foireann saor ó aon bhrú nó ó aon mhealltaí, go háirithe ó thaobh airgid, a mbeadh tionchar aige ar a breithiúnas nó ar thorthaí a gcuid imeachtaí measúnaithe, brú agus mealladh go háirithe brú nó mealltaí den sórt sin ó dhaoine nó grúpaí daoine a bhfuil leas acu i dtorthaí na n-imeachtaí sin.