How do the various components of Excellence Through Stewardship complement regulatory compliance?
A. They aim to strengthen and support full regulatory compliance through the requirement to have a management system in place for these and associated activities. The ETS audit process does not replace internal or external audits seeking to confirm regulatory compliance and/or the effectiveness of processes and systems, but the third-party audits conducted under the ETS process do verify that stewardship programs and quality management systems are in place to achieve regulatory compliance.
