As part of our future strategy, we are seeking to expand the tools that could be mutually recognized, going beyond audits for which we already have a mutual recognition approach in place. A third party study commissioned by AIM-PROGRESS identified four « buckets» of potentially mutually recognizable tools that should be further investigated:
Our Mutual Recognition work stream is now discussing the supplier assessment “bucket” in view of facilitating mutual recognition, or at least sharing, of such tools.