A compliance assurance agency shall not be affiliated with,
nor influenced or controlled by, producers, suppliers or vendors of products in
any manner which might affect its capacity to render reports of findings
objectively and without bias. A compliance assurance agency is judged to be
free of such affiliation, influence and control if it complies with all of the
following conditions:
1. The agency
has no managerial affiliation with producers, suppliers or vendors and is not
engaged in the sale or promotion of any product or material.
2. The results of the agency's work accrue no
financial benefits to the agency through stock ownership of, or other similar
affiliation to, any producer, supplier or vendor of the product
involved.
3. The agency's directors
and other management personnel in their job capacities receive no stock option
or other financial benefit from any producer, supplier or vendor of the product
involved.
4. The agency has
sufficient interest or activity that the loss or award of a specific contract
to determine compliance of a producer's, supplier's or vendor's product with
this chapter would not be a determining factor in its financial
well-being.
5. The employment
security status of the agency's personnel is free of influence or control by
producers, suppliers or vendors.
Notes
13 Va. Admin. Code §
5-91-190
Derived from Virginia
Register Volume 13, Issue 12, eff. April 15, 1997; amended, Virginia Register
Volume 22, Issue 3, eff. November 16, 2005.
Statutory Authority
§ 36-73 of the Code of Virginia.
