Restoration of Certification

The decision to restore certification shall be recorded within the client file after any issues have been addressed.
This shall be performed by a competent person in line with the skills matrix. This shall be considered as certification decision and a certification decision committee shall be constituted to take the decision.
Clients shall be informed and updated on all decisions made regarding the granting, refusing, maintaining, renewing, suspending or restoring of certification and expanding or reducing the scope of certification.
The scope of certification is agreed at an early stage in the certification process. The scope of certification may however need to be expanded or reduced due to factors such as acquisitions, downsizing, adding new divisions etc.
The decision to grant initial certification, renew certification or to expand or reduce the scope of certification, is made by competent and authorized personnel in GPL who are different from those carrying out the audit. This decision is made based on a review of the certification process and associated documentation.
Similar review also applies in cases of suspending or restoring certification or withdrawing the certification.