• An exhaustive documentary review of the internal AML / CFT measures of the person assessed, including in particular the policies, procedures and IT solutions for filtering and profiling of customers.
• Interviews with senior management and relevant personnel of the person assessed.
• A representative and relevant sample of files, taken on a non-nominative basis.

• Examination of technical compliance, then of the effectiveness of the AML / CFT measures adopted by the assessed person, through the examination and analysis of all the documentation submitted to the assessment team, the interviews and sample files.
  Interviews take place at the premises of the assessed person, while the detailed documentary review and data processing take place at the assessment team offices, accredited by the certifier.
  Any data or information communicated within the framework of the certification missions is strictly confidential. The entire relationship between the parties is governed by the highest confidentiality.
• At the end of the complete and in-depth examination of all the AML / CFT measures adopted and implemented by the assessed person, the rating of the technical compliance and the effectiveness of each recorded requirement is carried out in the specifications according to a rating system weighted by coefficients, pre-established and generated automatically.
• The AML Collective ensures that the assessment has been carried out in accordance with the requirements of the specifications and the assessment methodology and decides on the assessor’s eligibility for certification.

The AML / CFT is neutral and universal.
The assessment is based on a globally binary approach in order to ensure the fairness and objectivity of the certification.
The AML 30000 certification takes place as set out in the management system certification regulations, in line with the ISO 1702 standard.
The ISO 17021standard sets out the requirements and principles of competence, consistency, impartiality and independence, relating to certification work :

• Competence : AML 30000 auditors are selected on the basis of their expertise and experience in AML / CFT matters. Audit coordinators are chosen on the basis of their qualifications and their business expertise in each sector of activity (see list of financial institutions and non-financial businesses and professions.
• Consistency : The AML 30000 measurement schemes are established according to objective reasoning and constructed following a pragmatic approach.
• Impartiality : The greatest rigor is applied in the assessment, through strictly supervised and standardized procedures at the international level, sector of activity by sector of activity.
• Indepedence : The work is carried out by an independent third party with the status of certifier. The certification bodies authorized on the AML 30000 standard are authorized by the license.
  These organizations are authorized to issue the AML 30000 certification, on the basis of predefined selection criteria. Furthermore, during audit missions, the audit coordinators are, for the sake of independence, the only ones vis-à-vis the audited entity.