The applicability of these requirements to the manufacturer or contractor performing Code work can be seen in recent Inter pretation IX-92-92. (Interpretations are issued by the Code to pro- vide the meaning of or the intent of existing rules in the Code and are in a question and reply form.) Background: Two companies are contracted by a client com- pany to undertake pipe work installation on its facility. All stages of the welding procedure qualification processes for the two contracted companies are witnessed by the client company’s representative and the documentation is duly stamped and signed by the client. Question (1): May these procedures be used by the client company? Reply (1): No. Question (2): Does the client company have to requalify these procedures to perform in-house maintenance at a later date using all the same essential and nonessential variables with its own qualified welders? Reply (2): Yes.a7) QWw-101 A WPS used by an organization that will have responsi- ble operational control of production welding shall be a WPS that has heen qualified by that organization in accor- dance with Article Il, or it shall be an AWS Standard Weld- ing Procedure Specification (SWPS) listed in Mandatory Appendix E and adopted by that organization in accor- dance with Article V. Both WPSs and SWPSs specify the variables (including ranges, if any) under which welding must be performed. These conditions include the base metals that are per- mitted, the filler metals that must be used (if any), pre- heat and postweld heat treatment requirements, etc When a WPS is to be prepared by the organization, it must address, as a minimum, the specific variables, both essential and nonessential, as provided in Article Il for each process to be used in production welding. In addi- tion, when other Sections of the Code require toughness qualification of the WPS, the supplementary essential variables must be addressed in the WPS.