Sobesedilo: The individual environmental verifier or verification organisation shall ensure that he or she or the organisation and its staff is free of any commercial, financial or other pressures which might influence their judgment or endanger trust in their independence of judgment and integrity in relation to their activities, and that they comply with any rules applicable in this respect.

Sobesedilo: Okoljski preveritelj posameznik ali organizacija mora zagotoviti, da niso on ali organizacija in njeno osebje pod kakršnimi koli poslovnihmi, finančnimi ali drugimi pritiski, ki bi lahko vplivali na njihovo sodbo ali ogrozili zaupanje v neodvisnost njihove sodbe in neoporečnost njihovih aktivnosti, in da se ravnajo po vseh pravilih, ki se s tem v zvezi uporabljajo.