Many of the newly established societies do not have their own code of conduct, and usually they use blueprints of codes of conduct from other established societies. Due to the synergies within the EFFAS Member Societies drawn also from the EFFAS benchmarking grid (a common denominator of all National Member Societies Code of Conduct) conducted by the MSC Commission, it was seen as necessary to draft EFFAS’s own Principles of Ethical Conduct.