Standards System Charter

This document establishes governance requirements for Standards System Charter within the defined Good Taste Awards standards system.

This document applies to the requirements, decisions, records, controls, and outputs expressly identified under Standards System Charter. Award scope and exclusions are defined by GTA-STD-100; this document shall not create an additional award dimension. Operational prerequisites identified here affect assessment validity and never constitute product certification.

The Standards Authority owns GTA-GOV-001; the Standards Authority approves it. formal verbs, defined terms, stable requirement identities, policy constants, and generated representations shall be interpreted under GTA-GOV-002, GTA-GOV-005, and the defined registers.

The same person may hold compatible roles. Combination shall be recorded for the affected object. No combination may defeat a mandatory separation, disclose restricted identity to an assessor, or allow a person to independently review evidence that person created or altered.

Conformity with Standards System Charter requires evidence comprising the source evidence, defined decision, accountable role, and independent or automated verification. The record for each applicable GTA-GOV-001 requirement shall permit reconstruction without relying on an unrecorded explanation.

Evidence created under GTA-GOV-001 shall use stable identifiers, immutable event sequence numbers, and machine event timestamps. A correction shall be append-only. A nonconformity shall place the affected object in a non-releasable state until its consequence and confirmed disposition are recorded. Role combination remains subject to the mandatory separation rules.