1.The Ministry of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the “MOI”) has formulated the directions herein to execute the accreditation of the Green Building Material Label Professional Evaluation Organization (hereinafter referred to as the “PEO”) to execute evaluation for the Green Building Material Label, with a view to leverage the resources of various sectors in their engagement of public affairs to enhance the quality of evaluation and service.
2.The PEO shall fulfill the following qualifications:
(1)Be a government agency, state-run enterprise, non-profit juridical association, foundation, or public or registered private school at university or higher level.
(2)Have at least three full-time technical personnel with a university degree or higher in the related specialization including architecture, civil engineering, environmental engineering and chemical engineering, who have at least one year of work experience in green building materials.
(3)Employ at least one full-time administrative personnel with a college degree or higher who has at least one year of administrative work experience and will assist with the compilation of administrative documents.
(4)Have at least one meeting venue where evaluation work may be conducted.
(5)Have an electronic (Internet) work environment where information about the evaluation work may be published.
(6)Ability to convene at least twenty-one (21) MOI-approved experts and scholars to form the evaluation committee for Green Building Material Label.
(7)Ability to execute post-market follow-up review work.
(8)Other work executed or handled by the organization must not affect the fairness of its evaluation work.
Experts and scholars referred to in the preceding Subparagraph 6 may be representatives convened from a related domestic agency, school or group from the industry, government or academia with expertise and experience in the evaluation of green building materials, who must sign a letter of consent and an affidavit declaring that he/she may not he hired by another PEO accredited in accordance with the directions herein.
3.Anyone who fulfills all the qualifications prescribed in Article 2 herein may apply to the MOI to become a accredited PEO by submitting a completed application form, an execution plan and one original and one photocopy each of the proof of qualification.
The valid period of the accreditation referred to in the preceding paragraph is three years. The PEO shall apply to the MOI for re- accreditation within six months prior to the expiry date.
Should the MOI deem an application for designation or re-designation to require additional document(s), the Applicant shall be notified in writing to rectify the deficiency within two months upon receipt of such notice; an Applicant who fails to rectify the deficiency within two months upon receipt of notice may apply for an extension by submitting explanatory document(s) within the deadline; such extension is limited to once and for a maximum period of two months. An application that has not been rectified within the deadline shall be rejected.
4.The MOI may convene experts to form a qualification committee for the review and approval of the PEO accreditation and experts and scholars to be included in the evaluation committee; the tenure for the committee member is three years and may be renewed upon its expiry.
Neither gender should occupy less than one third of the seats of the committee.
5.Upon approval by the qualification committee, the successful Applicant will be accredited a PEO by the MOI and such accreditation will be published.
6.The execution plan referred to in Article 3 herein shall include the following:
(1)An introduction of the nature of the applicant agency.
(2)A description of the delegation of the dedicated personnel.
(3)The composition of the evaluation committees for Green Building Material Label, ecology, health, high performance and recycling categories and their assembling status.
(4)Methods and procedures of the evaluation work.
(5)Scheduling control for the evaluation work.
(6)How consultation services are provided to the Applicants.
(7)Procedure and process for accepting self-recommended proposals.
(8)Rules for follow-up review work and processing.
(9)Available hardware facilities including a meeting venue.
(10)Available information technology equipment.
(11)Charge standards.
(12)Product liability insurance plan for the evaluated items.
7.Where there have been any changes to the conditions prescribed in Subparagraphs 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 or 11 of the preceding article, the accredited PEO shall submit the relevant documents to the MOI for approval.
8.The full-time technical personnel, full-time administrative personnel and members of the evaluation committee of the designated PEO shall participate at least once in Paragraphs 2 of Article 3 herein within the specified expiry date in educational training held by the MOI or MOI-commissioned agencies or groups.
Those who have not participated in the education and training in accordance with the preceding paragraph will not be counted in the number of personnel in Subparagraphs 2, 3 and 6 of Paragraph 1, Article 2 herein in the application for re-designation.
9.The PEO is responsible, in accepting the applications for evaluation, for observing confidentiality for the documents, drawings and proof of testing submitted by the Applicants.
10.The PEO shall immediately issue a written notice to the applicant and the testing organization regarding any deficiencies in the test report and ask the testing organization to provide explanations and improvement plan by a deadline, and the MOI shall be copied.
11.The MOI may conduct a random check or inspection aperiodically on the evaluation work of the PEO as the need arises and may convene experts and scholars to join in such effort where necessary.
12.The MOI may rescind its accreditation should any of the following situations apply to the accredited PEO:
(1)Deficiency in the required personnel, facility or equipment and failure to rectify the deficiency according to the requirements.
(2)Other work executed or handled by the PEO affects the fairness of its evaluation work.
(3)Failure to execute the work according to the requirements or charge standards, upon investigation and verification.
(4)False or inaccurate evaluation.
(5)Acceptance of undue benefit.
(6)Loss of ability to execute the work.
(7)Other situations deemed by the MOI to be a gross breach in conducting evaluation-related work.
The PEO referred to in the preceding paragraph may not apply for accreditation within one year of the rescinding of its accreditation.
13.The PEO shall submit, every six months, a report to the MOI for record detailing its execution of applications, evaluation work and random checks for the Green Building Material Label.