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The body and its staff shall carry out the verification tests with professional integrity and technical competence and shall be free from all inducements, particularly financial, which might influence their the results of the inspection, especially from persons or groups of an interest in the result of verifications. addition to being technically competent, applicant bodies shall be legal public law, legal persons under private law, private-sector bodies or of these, with a legal form of public or private limited companies, financial standing can be proved by means of the following supporting records: Certificate of insurance and tax observance; Balance sheets for the last three years; Certificate stating that the body is not bankrupt, in liquidation, being wound up, in official receivership, in bankruptcy proceedings or in a similar situation arising from legal provisions; Certificate stating that the body is not in proceedings for bankruptcy, official receivership, creditor arrangements or other similar proceeding under legal provisions. body shall have at its disposal the necessary staff and possess the facilities to enable it to perform properly the administrative and technical connected with verification; it shall also have access to the equipment required verification.

staff responsible for testing/inspection shall have: sound technical and professional training, knowledge of the Directive or regulations being applied, satisfactory knowledge of the requirements of the tests they carry out and adequate experience of such tests, knowledge of the technology used to manufacture the products to be checked, of the way they are used, of problems that may arise during their use and the likely consequences of these, the ability to exercise professional judgment in respect of the conformity of the product with the requirements of the regulations being applied, the ability to draw up the certificates, records and reports required to authenticate the performance of the tests. each instance, the body shall be in a position to assess the conformity of against the essential requirements set out in the regulations and: Where harmonised standards are used for conformity assessment, compliance with the essential requirements is assumed. Where harmonised standards are not used for conformity assessment, or where standards do not specify a conformity assessment method, the body shall use its own method and be able to demonstrate that this method meets all the essential requirements for assessing the conformity of the product. impartiality of inspection staff shall be guaranteed. Their remuneration depend on the number of tests carried out or on the results of such tests. body shall take out civil liability insurance for the services it provides and shall be able to justify the amount of this. This does not apply if assumed by the Government of Malta in accordance with national Government of Malta itself is directly responsible for the tests.