Business Social Compliance Initiative. European based customer’s requirement. 

BSCI has 11 Principles for and the validity of the BSCI audit rating level is as follows：

Rating A or B: 

BSCI full audits are valid for 2 years, unless follow-up audits are to be conducted. This is the case for factories that receive an overall rating of A or B.

Factories rated A and B are eligible to receive a Random Unannounced Check in the period between the two full audits.

Rating C, D or E:

When a factory receives an overall rating of C, D or E after a full audit, the factory has to submit improvement plan through the platform (According to operation guidance of following page), this audit is valid until the follow-up audit is conducted.

The follow-up audit shall be conducted on the date defined in the Remediation Plan but it can only take place up to a maximum of 12 months after the last audit.

If the result of the follow-up audit shows improvements (A or B rating) then the audit is valid until the full audit is due.

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