What is the scope of the assessment?

The scope depends on the legal entity or entities of the company undergoing assessment. The assessment may span an entire group or parent company, or only a specific production site. However, each unit must be a commercial legal entity. The assessment scope is always indicated in your questionnaire.

We do not carry out assessments of the following entities: 

• Conglomerates or large companies operating across entirely different industries. In these cases, we recommend separate assessments for different divisions or subsidiaries, provided they have the right legal entity;
• Purely commercial entities (e.g., sales office, trading agent) and marketing entities in manufacturing groups;
• Governmental organization and NGOs;
• Product names, commercial brands and trademarks.

Several local operational sites may be considered under a single assessment only if they are part of a single legal entity. Otherwise, we cannot assess several such sites in a single assessment. We may, in this case, proceed with separate assessments or assess the parent company.