How the ISO 14001:2015 upgrade will affect Certified Organisations

The 2015 version of the ISO 14001 standard aims to bring a number of benefits that the 2004 version of the standard either briefly covered or did not offer at all:

• Increased prominence of environmental management
• More leadership responsibilities
• Greater emphasis on protecting the environment
• Stronger focus on improving environmental performance
• Addresses environmental impact at all stages within product life cycle
• Better communication strategy
• More modern approach to documentation management

If you are currently certified to ISO 14001 and you wish to maintain your certification, you will need to upgrade your environmental management system to the 2015 version of the standard and seek certification to it. You have a three-year transition period from the date of publication (September 2015) to move to the 2015 version. This means that, after the end of September 2018, a certificate to ISO 14001:2004 will no longer be valid.

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