The Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS) understands the importance of impartiality and confidentiality in carrying out its management system certification activities. BOBS management is committed to gaining and maintaining the reputation, credibility and ultimately, confidence of its stakeholders in rendering its certification services. Additionally, BOBS strives to continuously manage foreseen potential conflicts of duty and interest and ensures objectivity of its activities under the management system certification.
To achieve the above, BOBS shall identify, analyse, record and manage potential conflict of duty and interest to ensure that certification services are not provided within relationships that have been identified to pose an unacceptable threat to impartiality.
An Impartiality Committee shall periodically review activities of the certification function to verify commitment to credibility and fairness. The Committee shall further assist in the development of policies relating to impartiality of providing certification activities.
BOBS is committed to maintaining in strict confidence all information accessed while rendering the certification services and shall ensure that such information is not divulged to third parties without the Client’s written consent unless if required by law.
Advert No 02-2025-2026 1.IEC 60904-2 :2023 Photovoltaic devices – Part 2: Requirements for photovoltaic reference devices, 2. IEC 60904-5 :2011+ Amd 1:2022 Photovoltaic devices – Part 5: Determination of the equivalent cell temperature (ECT) of photovoltaic (PV) devices by the open-circuit voltage method, 3. IEC 61427-2:2015+AMD1:2024 Secondary cells and batteries for renewable energy storage – General requirements and methods of test – Part 2: On-grid applications, 4. IEC 62093 :2022 Balance-of-system components for photovoltaic systems – Design qualification natural environments, 5. IEC TS 62257-12-1 :2020 Recommendations for small renewable energy and hybrid systems for rural electrification – Part 12-1: Selection of self-ballasted lamps (CFL) for rural electrification systems and recommendations for household lighting equipment. (Deadline 22 July 2025)