The body and its personnel must carry out the assessments and verifications with the highest degree of professional integrity and technical competence and must be free from all pressures and inducements, particularly financial, which might influence their judgment or the results of the inspection, especially from persons or groups of persons with an interest in the results of verifications.

The body and the staff responsible for inspection must carry out the checking operations with the greatest possible professional integrity and the greatest possible technical competence and must be free of any pressure and incentive, in particular of a financial type, which may affect their judgment or the results of their inspection, and in particular those generated by persons or groups of persons affected by the results of the checks.

Furthermore, the resolution stated that Member States should appropriately increase the number of staff performing inspections at airports to reduce the risk of livestock diseases being carried by means of illegal imports of animal origin in the luggage of air passengers, and make greater use of sniffer dogs to detect these products, and that corresponding measures and increased vigilance should apply to all entry points into the European Community.

The report shall be accompanied by the information on the number and qualifications of staff undertaking the audit, on the work done, on the number of transactions examined, on the level of materiality and confidence obtained, on the weakness found and recommendations made for improvement, and on the operations of both the certifying body and other audit bodies, internal and external to the paying agencies, from which all or part of the certifying body's assurance on the matters reported was gained.