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Part C: “Summary of Audit and Corrective Action Reports” should not be included in a Required criterion due to the following reasons.

 

The information provided through audits on social responsibility such as non-conformity, preventive measures and corrective action report is related to the suppliers' sensitive internal circumstances, thus such information is highly confidential and impossibly difficult to obtain their consent for information disclosure.

 

We think that Part C should be reverted to be in 7.1.4 as Optional criteria.

Part C should be deleted from 7.1.3, and the requirements of the Part C should be reverted to be in 7.1.4 as Optional criteria.

 

And then, after reverted, the following text should be added to avoid identifying suppliers in the summary report.

 

 

[ADD: The information which might identify the audited supplier need not be given.]

 

(The verification requirements do not state that names of the suppliers audited should be made public, but we would like to ensure that supplier information is protected from a confidentiality perspective.)