Executive Yuan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) promulgated “Recyclable Waste Auditing and Certification Regulation” based on the Article 18, paragraph 2 of “Waste Disposal Act”. EPA Recycling Fund Management Committee is in accordance with the audited and certificated amount by auditing and certification group to subsidy the subsidized organizations. TUV Reinland Taiwan Ltd. (TUV) was entrusted by Taiwan EPA to implement the project “ The Third-party Auditing and Certification on Obligated Recyclable Waste Information Technology (IT) Equipments ”, from July 01, 2004 to March 31, 2005. Ten subsidized organizations were audited and certificated during this period. The certificated amount of IT equipment were 1,276,983 sets including 565,974 sets of main stations, 275,904 sets of monitors, 432,310 sets of printers and 2,795 sets of notebooks. TUV auditing and certification team found 2,361 sets of unaccepted IT equipment and prevented to over subsidy of 447,980 NT dollars from Management Committee’s issuance to subsidized organizations. It was positive for waste recycling auditing and certification system. TUV executed 76 times of accounting audit and inventory check, 76 times of environment-safety-health audit, 1,580 times of facility check and 24,264 hours of CCTV monitoring check in the project. 53 major deviation and abnormal events were found during this period. TUV reported the deviation and events to EPA and also provided the concrete solutions to subsidized organizations. TUV also proposed several programs to EPA for enhancing the auditing and certification efficiency and modified “The Operational Manual”, which was announced on July 1, 2004.

Information Technology Equipment,,Third-party of Auditing and Certification,,collected/treated amount