who is allowed to approve the answers here before they are sent

Confirming is an internal authority, not a system role

Who within the company may confirm an answer is not something Supplia determines or checks. The system recognizes questions, fills them from the supply chain file and sets each answer ready with the status "yet to be confirmed". Who may press that button is an internal arrangement within the enterprise — comparable to who may sign an offer or enter into a contract. Supplia imposes no rule on this and does not check whether the person confirming is authorized to do so.

In practice, this authority usually lies with whoever can substantively assess the answer: the quality manager for a question on ISO 9001, the IT responsible person for a question on the ten measures of Article 21(2) of the NIS2 Directive, the finance department for a question on annual turnover. For factual data such as the registration number under which the enterprise is registered or the countries where the company has establishments confirmation often lies with one central point of contact, because those data recur throughout the list. Who arranges this internally — one administrator, multiple approvers per subject — is up to the enterprise itself.

No approval, certification or logging on our part

Supplia does not confirm, assess or certify anything: there is no kite mark, no score and no approval from the platform itself. Each answer remains "yet to be determined" until someone within the company confirms it with yes or no; only then does the customer file it themselves with the portal of their own customer. This follows from how the process is structured: the system recognizes and fills, the human confirms, the enterprise files. There is therefore no article or standard — not the VSME basic module, not the CSRD Directive, not ISO/IEC 27001 — that prescribes who within a company may give that confirmation. This is and remains an internal matter.