Institution
Governed for neutrality, accuracy and defensibility
Accountability at 1Cert.org is exercised through four functions with separated duties, so that no commercial interest can direct a registry record, a standard or a recognition decision.
Board of Directors
The Board is accountable for the charter, registry integrity, methodology and recognition decisions. It adopts and amends the standards, approves recognition arrangements on the Recognition Committee's recommendation, and reviews the correction log. No amendment it adopts may diminish the principles of neutrality, accuracy, corroboration and defensibility.
Standards and Integrity
Standards and Integrity maintains the standards catalogue, the recognition criteria and data-source governance, independently of commercial functions. It runs the public consultation process, assesses conformance, and owns the review and correction process for records and findings.
Recognition Committee
The Recognition Committee assesses applications for recognition against the published framework and records the arrangements in force: the body, the functions, the jurisdiction and the scope. Recognition is a formal determination, and every recognition it records is published on the recognised bodies register.
Operating Leadership
Operating Leadership is responsible for delivery: registry operations, engagement quality, data security, and the contact and support channels. It reports to the Board against the operating principles.
Officer confidentiality
Consistent with the operational security required of a verification and due diligence institution, 1Cert.org does not publish the identities of its directors, officers or analysts. Verified counterparties may request governance attestations and key-person disclosures under a confidentiality agreement as part of engagement onboarding, through the contact channels. Decisions of the functions above are evidenced in the registers, standards and correction records this site publishes, which are the instruments by which the institution is held to account.
See the institutional charter for how these functions relate to the institution's purpose, scope and boundaries.