Party A: Project Consigner

Party B: CEC

The rights of Party A

1) Confirm the beginning date of validation/verification with CEC;

2) Demur for the auditor to be attend the validation/verification team with the reasonable excuse;

3) Appeal or complaint to Party B or EB. The issue could be solved through judicial procedure if necessary.

The responsibilities of Party A

1) Provide relevant documents and information according to the “Application for validation or verification and certification” and update them in time;

2) Implement the items in the contract signed by both Parties;

3) Pay the charge of fee confirmed in the contract to Party B on time;

4) No request to the Party B refund the validation fee for the suspending or withdrawal of the registration by the Party A’s fault;

5) If Party A asks to modify the project boundary, it should re-submit the application to Party B to determine whether to start a new validation process; if it is necessary to take a complementary or a new validation process, both Parties should sign a complementary or a new validation contract.

 The rights Party B

1) If Party B do not provide the veracious status of project which has already affected the objectivity and validity of auditing conclusion, Party B will have the right to suspend the project, withdraw the validation and/or verification and certification report and/or take an additional auditing;

2) The right to cease the validation/verification process is hold by Party B in case Party A offends any regulation, do not pay for the charge according to the contract or has a CAR without correction activity.

The responsibilities of Party B

1)      CDM project service provided by Party B should be available to all the applicants without any other egregious finance or other requirements. Party B should not require any comment such as the scale of organization, or whether it is the member of some designated association or corporation to be application requirements and should deny the preferential or delayed application with any unfair methods;

2)      According to the requirements of Party A and the contract signed by both parties, Party B should carry out the validation/verification process to the project base on the relevant procedure. In order to ensure the impartiality, independence and creditability of CDM projects, Party B shall not subcontract CDM projects to external institutions or person. Party B shall not entrust external institutions or persons with the right of approving and revising the validation or verification and certification outputs;

3)      Party B should make the relevant information of the project under consideration publicly available on the website. After the validation/verification process, Party B should send the application of registration to EB in time;

4)      Provide relevant public documents to Party A, such as the “Service Approach”, the “The right and responsibility of both parties”, the “Procedure of Appeals, Complaints and Disputes” etc;

5)      Undertake the duty of confidentiality for the relevant information about Party A gained from the validation process; without the written permission from Party A, Party B could not disclose the information to any organization or any person through any way;

6)      According to the relevant procedure, Party B should dispose the appeals, complaints and disputes and send the result to Party A in time.