Environmental Analysis Organization Management Regulations Article 16-1

Where a testing and analysis organization is found to have involved in any of the following circumstances, the central competent authority shall revoke the permit for the testing and analysis items concerned the violation:I. The testing and analysis organization provides false information regarding the deployment or qualifications/experiences of its testing and analysis personnel.II. The testing and analysis organization provides false testing data in its permit application for the testing and analysis items.Where a testing and analysis organization is found to have involved in any of the following circumstances, the central competent authority shall cancel its permit for the testing and analysis items concerned in the violation:I. Issuance of a testing report without actually performing the sampling or test or alternation of test results without justifiable reason.II. Adjustment of instruments or software settings for testing in order to falsify data.III. Violation of Subparagraph 2 or 3, Paragraph 1 of Article 17 for the same testing and analysis item and penalized by the competent authority twice within one year.IV. Failure twice consecutively in sampling technique evaluations or blind sample tests conducted under Article 21 and failure to complete improvements before the prescribed deadline.If the falsification of testing report data involves criminal liability and a criminal judgment has been rendered by the court, and it is determined that the falsification was directed by the representative of the testing and analysis organization, the central competent authority shall cancel the permits for all testing and analysis items of that testing and analysis organization.