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Impartiality is a condition of acceptance.

Energy Up International is responsible for the impartiality of its validation and verification activities. Commercial, financial or other pressure is not permitted to compromise a conclusion.

The governing rule

Two sentences that decide most of it.

We do not examine what we helped to prepare, and the person who performed the verification does not take the verification decision.

Relationships and potential conflicts are identified, assessed, treated and monitored before and during each engagement. The assessment is documented; it is not a conversation.

How threats are handled

Identify, analyse, treat, monitor.

  1. Identify

    Relationships across the group, prior work for the client, personal relationships, financial interests and the origin of the assertion.

    Before acceptance

  2. Analyse

    Self-interest, self-review, advocacy, familiarity and intimidation threats are assessed against the specific engagement.

    Documented

  3. Treat

    Team separation, personnel exclusion, time separation, additional independent review — or declining the engagement.

    Recorded decision

  4. Monitor

    Circumstances change during delivery. A new relationship arising mid-engagement is reassessed, not absorbed.

    Throughout
What this rules out

The engagements we will not accept.

  • Verifying an inventory, footprint or claim that we prepared, corrected or designed.
  • Providing consultancy on the subject matter of a verification we are performing.
  • Accepting a fee arrangement contingent on the conclusion reached.
  • Allowing a person who performed the work to review it or decide on it.
  • Accepting an engagement where a readiness review created a self-review threat that cannot be reduced to an acceptable level.
Reporting a concern

If you think a conclusion was influenced, say so.

Any client, statement user or other interested party may raise a concern about impartiality through the complaints route. A decision may be challenged through the appeals route. Raising either does not affect access to our services and does not trigger discriminatory action of any kind.

The criteria

What this policy is built on.

  • ISO/IEC 17029:2019 - general principles and requirements for validation and verification bodies.
  • ISO 14065:2020 - requirements for bodies validating and verifying environmental information.
  • ISO 14064-3:2019 - verification and validation of greenhouse gas statements.
  • ISO 14066:2023 - competence requirements for validation and verification teams.
  • The IAF mandatory documents applicable to the schemes we operate under.

Validators, verifiers and reviewers are appointed against the competence requirements of ISO 14066:2023. Training, supervision and evaluation are recorded, and competence is confirmed for the specific scheme and sector before an engagement is accepted.

Governance

Who keeps this honest.

An impartiality committee, independent of the delivery function, oversees the safeguarding of impartiality. It reviews the impartiality risk analysis at least annually, and whenever a significant risk arises.

  • Internal audit and management review include a systematic assessment of impartiality.
  • Committee recommendations, complaint and appeal outcomes and lessons learned are returned to the risk analysis.
  • Threats identified between reviews are treated when they arise, not held over to the next cycle.
Policy statement

Signed by top management.

Energy Up International conducts all validation and verification activities with impartiality, independence and professional integrity. No commercial, financial or organisational pressure is permitted to influence a validation or verification decision. Every opinion we issue is independent, objective, evidence-based, conservative where uncertainty remains, and transparent in its technical justification.

Dr. Ahmed Ali Seyam
General Manager, Energy Up International LLC

Issue 1 · September 2026 · Reviewed at least annually.

Controlled document: EUK/VVB/QMS/POL01/25 · Version 01/25 · Issued / effective: 24 Aug 2025 · Revised: — · Read the full document

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