Article 20 2.

this Regulation;

the general functioning of environmental management systems;

relevant sectoral reference documents issued by the Commission, under Article 46, for the application of this Regulation;

the legislative, regulatory and administrative requirements relevant to the activity subject to verification and validation;

environmental aspects and impacts including the environmental dimension of sustainable development;

the technical aspects, relevant to environmental issues, of the activity subject to verification and validation;

the general functioning of the activity subject to verification and validation in order to assess the appropriateness of the management system, in relation to the interaction of the organisation and its products, services and operations with the environment including at least the following:

environmental auditing requirements and methodology including the ability to undertake effective verification audits of an environmental management system, identification of appropriate audit findings and conclusions and preparation and presentation of audits reports, in oral and written forms, to provide a clear record of the verification audit;

information audit, the environmental statement and the updated environmental statement in relation to data management, data storage and manipulation, presentation of data in written and graphical format for the appreciation of potential data errors, use of assumptions and estimates;

the environmental dimension of products and services including the environmental aspects and environmental performance during the usage and post-use, and the integrity of data provided for environmental decision making.