‘The current draft includes changes to a new high level structure, a departure from the existing, policy, planning, implementation and operation, checking and corrective action and management review model, replacing it with Leadership, Planning, support and operation, performance evaluation and improvement. This new structure will be used in all future ISO management standards e.g. ISO 9001.
- In addition to the significant change of the new high level structure, the key new proposed alterations from these two sources of change include:
- A stronger integration of environmental management into the strategic planning of the organisation.
- Evaluation of Business Risk and Opportunities in an environmental context.
- Life Cycle approach and Value Chain planning and Control
- Indicators and Communication
We can now report that the work by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) to complete the revision of ISO 14001 has reached an important landmark. Following a consultation on the previous draft, the working group has now completed the preparation of the “Draft International Standard” (DIS) version of the revised ISO 14001. This means that it is very likely that the revised standard will be published in mid-2015, as anticipated.
It took two meetings of the working group, in February and just recently in Panama, to address all of the comments from the previous consultation, and reach consensus on the content of the DIS. A small task group will edit the agreed text, which will then be formatted and translated by the ISO secretariat, for a comprehensive consultation exercise, due to commence in September for three months. Following this, ISO will collate the comments, for the working group to review in February 2015. At this advanced stage, it is not anticipated that the working group will make any substantive changes to the content, and so it is hoped that ISO’s members will approve the final draft (FDIS), allowing publication of ISO 14001:2015 next summer.
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF), the global “regulator” for the certification organisations, has informed the working group that it agrees with the recommended three-year transition period for organisations certified to ISO 14001:2004. This means that certified organisations will not have to meet the requirements of ISO 14001:2015 until 2018.
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Source: CRA Europe
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