The purpose of the company is to provide services. In particular, it carries out monitoring, inspection, verification, analysis, audit, and certification activities, including: quantity controls as well as quality and conformity checks of goods, raw materials, semi-finished and finished products, consumer goods, as well as machines and industrial plants; the verification of compliance with national, international, or professional standards, regulations, or norms with regard to management systems, products, and services. The company may participate in other enterprises and acquire, utilize, manage, and dispose of real estate and immaterial property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches both domestically and abroad, and furthermore, perform all legal actions that the purpose of the company may entail or that are suitable to promote its development or that of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, as well as companies in which these are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may also provide securities of any kind for their liabilities, including through pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not. The company is part of the SGS Group and may, in pursuing its corporate purpose, take into account the interests of the SGS Group.