Impartiality and Conflict of Interest

Statement Of AHDAA Impartiality and Conflict and Interest Procedure

Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) understands the need and the importance of impartiality in carrying out its certification policy.  Considering this, AHDAA also goes to lengths to ensure that potential conflicts of interests are identified and avoided to ensure that there is a respect to impartiality in AHDAA’s services and certification tasks. AHDAA also understand that to safeguard and maintain the wellbeing of this impartiality, there needs to be obligations to both AHDAA and its clients.

Subsequently, AHDAA has developed and applied these measures in order to safeguard a compliance and management of impartiality that aligns with the requirements of 4.2 of ISO/IEC 17065, clause 5.2: GSO 2055-2, clause 5.2 of OIC/SMIIC 2 and clause 5.2 of UAE.S 2055- 2.

  1. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) will not receive any financial support or undisclosed sums that are not correlated with the services it provides.
  2. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) auditors will not own shares or have financial interests in the entity of which they are auditing.
  3. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) will not be influenced or persuaded by a foreign organisation or government when dealing with clients in Australia.
  4. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) will not provide services to a particular entity when the relations between that entity and AHDAA could lead to an impartiality threat.
  5. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) does not pay, nor receive undisclosed payments to foreign halal organisations or Governments that are not related to contractual services. This will mean that no foreign halal organisation or Government can exert influence on AHDAA to make it act it their interests.
  6. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) prevents all employees and staff from any consulting or extra-curricular activities with clients and organisations.
  7. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) will not provide information to any third party when it comes to a matter between clients, unless authorised explicitly. This is in accordance with the AHDAA contractual engagement and consideration for client privacy.
  8. – Australian Halal Development and Accreditation (AHDAA) will consistently monitor impartiality risks and advancement, and will conduct a bi-annual impartiality evaluation to maintain these standards

AHDAA has an impartiality committee in alignment with requirements clause 5.2 of GSO 2055-2, clause 5.2 of OIC/SMIIC 2 and clause 5.2 of UAE.S 2055- 2. This committee is tasked with safeguarding and ensuring impartiality, while assessing risks and threats.