RICS Rules of Conduct and Global Professional Standards ROC-1: Rule 1: honesty, integrity and compliance with professional obligations

The rule requires honesty and integrity from members and firms and compliance with their professional obligations, those owed to RICS included. RICS's example behaviours: not misleading others by act, omission or complicity; not being improperly swayed by referrals, gifts, hospitality, payments or self-interest; identifying actual and potential conflicts throughout an assignment and acting where one exists only as the Conflicts of interest standard permits; firms running effective processes to identify conflicts, decide on accepting work and record those decisions; giving honest, objective, evidence-based advice (with firm processes to ensure staff do so); being open about fees and services; preventing others from being misled about their opinion; not taking unfair advantage; protecting confidential information and using or disclosing it only for its purpose, with consent or as the law requires or permits; firms keeping client money safe under proper accounting controls and members not misusing it; and not facilitating financial crime (money laundering, tax evasion, bribery, corruption), with firm processes to stop staff doing so.