Regulations Governing Implementation of Hygiene and Safety Management System Certification of Fishery Products for Export Article 6

BSMI shall notify the operator who submitted nonconforming or uncompleted documents to take corrections during one month; where the operator does not submit corrected ones before a given date, BSMI cannot accept the application; where otherwise BSMI shall notify the operator in written to accept the application formally once the submitted documents complying with the requirements.After accepting the certification application, BSMI should forward all documents to a certification audit authority for review. Once found any noncompliance in documents after reviewing, the certification audit authority shall notify the operator to correct the findings during one month. Where the operator has not completed the corrections or failed to correct before indicated date, BSMI shall notify the operator in written to reject the application.The certification audit authority shall notify the operator in written to take arrangements for an on-site certification audit after ensuring all documents complying to the requirements as required reviewing in the preceding paragraph.