Standards and rules: what changed, and when

The clause structure is unchanged. What moved: risks and opportunities split into 6.1.2 and 6.1.3, quality culture and ethical behaviour in 5.1.1 and 7.3, a new 5.2.1(e) tying the quality policy to strategic direction, climate carried in from the 2024 amendment, and a rewritten Annex A.

The day-level dates, meaning the last initial audit to the 2015 edition, the last transition audit and the withdrawal of 2015 certificates, come from the IAF resolution and then from each accreditation body. Ask your certification body for its dates in writing. The ISO 9001:2026 transition guide, linked below, sets out the clause-by-clause work.

It governs public-sector contracts, government facility management among them. A contract drafted or bid across 2 January 2027 Government Tenders and Procurement Law: in force · needs a clear answer on which law governs it.

The delay-penalty caps quoted across this market come from the outgoing law, so this tracker gives no penalty figures. Read the implementing regulations against your own tender once they are issued.

Version 6, the version audits run against until then, was published on 31 March 2023 and became mandatory on 1 April 2024. Version 7 references the reissued ISO 22002:2025 prerequisite programme series.

Take the change list from the Version 7 scheme document itself rather than from a summary of it, and ask your certification body for your upgrade audit date in writing.

It moved five months before ISO 9001. A site holding both on one document set can often run the two transitions as one piece of work and open its shared procedures once.

For most sites the environmental work is a re-read of the aspects register and the compliance obligations register, then one document re-issue.

FSSC 22000 Version 7 references this series. Until your Version 7 upgrade audit, the category table in Version 6 names the prerequisite standard that applies to your site.

Manufacturers, importers and distributors in categories A and B hold an ISO 13485 certificate from a body SFDA recognises. Authorised representatives and category C and D importers and distributors are asked for documented evidence or an SFDA inspection. The category comes from the questionnaire completed in SFDA's GHAD system.

That makes HACCP a licence condition for a food manufacturer, separate from any scheme a customer writes into a contract. It is the item with the longest lead time, because a certification body needs a plan that runs and records that show it running.

In the 2015 edition, volume two set out the environmental permit programme: an Environmental Permit to Construct and an Environmental Permit to Operate. An obligations register for a site in Jubail or Ras Al Khair should be read against the current volumes rather than a summary of the 2015 edition.

The law was issued by Royal Decree M/19 and amended by Royal Decree M/148. Being ready means records of processing, privacy notices, a process for data subject rights and a procedure for notifying SDAIA within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach that could cause harm.

SAAC accredits certification bodies and does not certify organisations itself. To check a certificate, read the accreditation body named on it, then verify the certification body on that accreditation body's own published list.

ECC binds government bodies, their affiliates and entities that own, operate or host critical national infrastructure, and many private suppliers meet it through a contract clause. A gap register or supplier questionnaire still using ECC-1 control numbers points at a structure that no longer exists, so map each line to the full ECC-2 reference once.

ISO 9001:2026 and ISO 14001:2026 carry the amendment into their new editions, so a site that took it in 2024 has that row of its transition already closed. The amended clause 4.1 asks you to determine whether climate change is a relevant issue, so be ready to show that you considered it. It is a short item to close.

A revision of ISO 45001 is expected, and nothing changes for a 45001 system until a new edition is published and a transition is announced. Anyone offering an ISO 45001 transition today should be asked which edition they mean.