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Quality Requirements Edition 5.0 European Enamel Association

1.2.11 b) Confirm of the failure decision

Annual ”EEA” certificate / label auditing procedure: The decision of the Executive Committee is final.
In the years between the regular audits (each 3 years) the EEA secretary will send a request

to the company to submit to the Secretary of the EEA a statement of EEA compliance to 1.2.15
all certified application areas, undersigned by both the quality manager and the managing Where the failure decision is confirmed, the applicant is not be permitted to use the ”EEA”
director of the certified company. Alternatively the company may deliver yearly an audit label. If the applicant wishes to be considered for continuing use of the ”EEA” label, then
report performed by an EEA approved “external” auditing team or auditor. the applicant shall be required to re-apply for accreditation as laid down in this chapter 1.

The validity period of the certificate is three years. Before the expiration date on the 1.2.16
certificate, a recertification audit, performed by an “external” EEA approved auditing team The costs involved for the auditing shall be set between applicant and auditor.
or auditor, needs to be organized by the certified company, followed by repeating the

steps mentioned in §1.2.3 till 1.2.10 till the EEA certificate renewal and undersigning by 1.2.17
EEA. The company shall pay towards EEA once a registration fee; as well as an annual fee for
the license to use the certificate / label .Payments shall be made within the EEA stipulated

In the event of an audit failure, the applicant shall be given a period of two months to payment terms of 60 days. Failure to comply will result in the applicant being suspended
undertake corrective actions, after which a re-audit will take place. until payment is received.

1.2.12 1.2.18
If there is a failure of the re-audit, the applicant shall not be permitted to continue the use Auditing Requirements

of the ”EEA” label until approval is regained.
Control of documents and apparatus

1.2.13

The applicant may appeal against a suspension of using the EEA certificate / label to the 1.2.18.1
EC of the EEA. The EC of the EEA shall give their judgement within two months from the Relevant internal testing documents and evidence of test results shall be required. This
date of the appeal. An appeal will not suspend the rejection. shall include testing and results to ISO, CEN, national or EEA standards detailed in these
quality requirements.

1.2.14 ISO 9001 certified companies shall submit their ISO 9001 accreditation documents
The EC of the EEA may, after hearing the parties, agree to: including details of procedures, testing and production, the results obtained and standards
a) Annul the failure decision maintained.

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