Revision of ISO 9001 – what it means and the timeline

DIN standards are reviewed at least every five years to determine whether they are still up to date. If it is found that they no longer reflect the current state of the art, they are revised – see, for example, the revision of ISO 27001 and ISO 27002 in 2022. A revision usually takes two years, meaning that a revised version appears approximately every seven years.

In 2021, ISO 9001:2015 was confirmed unchanged by the technical committee ISO/TC 176/SC 2 "Strategic Planning and Operations Task Group" (SPOTG) in consultation with the member organisations. No revision therefore took place. However, it was determined that it would need to be examined whether the next revision should begin earlier than in the standard case described above.

This has now happened in 2024. ISO 9001 is being revised ahead of schedule. As early as the beginning of August 2023, the aforementioned technical committee ISO/TC 176/SC 2 voted in favour of an early revision of ISO 9001. The Committee Draft of ISO 9001 (CD1), as the first draft, was published in April 2024. In the autumn it was then decided that a second draft (CD2) is necessary, meaning that publication of the revised standard is planned for autumn 2026.

Standards are usually developed in ISO's Technical Committees ("TCs") and Sub-Committees ("SCs"). The steps for publication / revision are:

  1. Agreement on the need to revise a standard
  2. Preliminary and working drafts (WDs) from international experts
  3. Committee Drafts (CDs), which – unlike the WDs – are also submitted to the ISO member bodies (e.g. the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) in Germany, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in the USA, or the British Standards Institution (BSI) in the UK)
  4. Draft International Standard (DIS): this represents a publication of the CDs
  5. Final Draft International Standard (FDIS): publication following acceptance of the DIS, including relevant comments
  6. International Standard

Erwartete Änderungen der ISO 9001

No fundamental changes to ISO 9001 are expected. Rather, the focus here too is on harmonising the structure of the standard (Harmonized Structure, Annex "SL" of the ISO Directives) with the other management systems. In addition, specific topics in the annex are to be clarified – these include topics such as vision, quality culture and the handling of risks and opportunities as part of risk management (see clause 6 of the standard), as well as ethics and integrity and mission and values.

In parallel with ISO 9001, ISO 9000 is also being revised – particularly in the area of definitions.

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