How to interpret this paragraph?

Question

Below, you can see the middle part of page 25 of Common Methodology for Information Technology Security Evaluation document:

The CEM recognises three mutually exclusive verdict states:
a) Conditions for a pass-verdict are defined as an evaluator completion of the CC evaluator action element and determination that the requirements for the PP, ST or TOE under evaluation are met. The conditions for passing the element are defined as:

1) the constituent work units of the related CEM action, and;

2) all evaluation evidence required for performing these work units is coherent, that is it can be fully and completely understood by the evaluator, and

3) all evaluation evidence required for performing these work units does not have any obvious internal inconsistencies or inconsistencies with other evaluation evidence. Note that obvious means here that the evaluator discovers this inconsistency while performing the work units: the evaluator should not undertake a full consistency analysis across the entire evaluation evidence every time a work unit is performed.

My problem is understanding the paragraph that is in bold.

Actually I wonder which one of the following interpretations is correct:

First interpretation:

Conditions for a pass-verdict are:

1. An evaluator must complete CC evaluator action element. and
2. It must be determined that requirements are met.

Second interpretation:

Conditions for a pass-verdict will be defined just after that:

1. An evaluator completed CC evaluator action element. and
2. It is determined that requirements are met.

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As you see above , in the first interpretation, I considered "as" equal to "as following"; and in the second interpretation, I considered it equal to "just after". Which one is correct?

If the first interpretation is correct, then what are the conditions 1, 2 and 3 in the end of quoted text?

Answer 1

Conditions for a pass-verdict are defined as an evaluator completion of the CC evaluator action element and determination that the requirements for the PP, ST or TOE under evaluation are met.

Bleh, terrible sentence. Here's the simplified "core" of the sentence:

Conditions ... are defined as a[n] ... completion ... and determination.

So, for a "pass-verdict" to occurr, there must be a successful completion (of some kind) and a successful determination (of some kind).

This text tells you about the kind of completion:

... evaluator completion of the CC evaluator action element

This text tells you about the kind of determination:

... that the requirements for the PP, ST or TOE under evaluation are met.