ISO 14001 environmental management software for the 2015 and 2026 editions

Compliance has catalogs for ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 14001:2026. Each catalog holds clauses 4 to 10 of the management system.

The catalog marks every requirement as mandatory, so there is nothing to exclude in the Applicability view.

The requirement texts are summaries in plain language, not the ISO text. For the standard itself, the catalog points you to your national standards body, such as NEN in the Netherlands. Both catalogs also come in Dutch.

When you adopt an edition, Compliance creates yearly schedules for the internal audit, the external audit and the management review. The member who adopts the edition owns them, and each edition gets its own schedules.

Compliance does not certify your organisation. A certification body audits your environmental management system and issues the certificate. Compliance is where you keep the evidence, findings and records the auditor asks to see.

You can adopt both editions at the same time, so you can run them side by side during the transition.

When you adopt the 2026 edition, Compliance does not copy coverage, narratives or owners from 2015. The crosswalk marks the paired 2015 and 2026 clauses as Equivalent, and Proposed coverage suggests coverage in the new edition from what you linked in the old one. You accept or dismiss each suggestion, and an accepted suggestion becomes normal coverage.

Some clauses exist in only one edition. The 2026 clauses 6.1.4 Risks and opportunities and 6.3 Planning of changes have no 2015 clause, so you set up their coverage yourself. The 2015 clause 10.1 Improvement, general has no 2026 clause.

The 2026 catalog reflects these changes:

• 4.1 names climate change, biodiversity, ecosystems, pollution and the availability of natural resources.
• 4.2 says the needs and expectations of interested parties can include requirements related to climate.
• 6.1.4 Risks and opportunities is new, and planning action moves to 6.1.5.
• 6.3 Planning of changes is new.
• 9.3 is split into 9.3.1 General, 9.3.2 Inputs and 9.3.3 Results.
• Clause 10 is renumbered, so 10.1 is Continual improvement and 10.2 is Nonconformity and corrective action.
• 6.1.2 widens the emergency situations you consider for environmental aspects, and 8.1 now speaks of externally provided processes. 5.1, 9.1.1 and 9.2.2 have smaller wording changes.

ISO published ISO 14001:2026 on 15 April 2026. It replaces ISO 14001:2015 and its 2024 amendment on climate.

Global ACI sets the transition rules for accredited certification. It says that from 31 October 2027, new and initial certifications may only be issued to ISO 14001:2026, and that ISO 14001:2015 certifications are no longer valid after 30 April 2029. Accreditation bodies may add their own requirements, so check the details with your certification body.

Compliance has no separate environmental module. You cover the environmental clauses with the same records you use for other frameworks.

You cover 6.1.2 on environmental aspects with records such as a procedure, a policy, a risk or an opportunity. You record the context for 4.1 in the Business Issues register.

On each interested party, such as a regulator or a customer, you record the requirements it places on you. Each requirement gets an optional source, such as a permit or a law. New requirements start as Mandatory, and you can switch that off. That is where you keep your compliance obligations for 6.1.3. Compliance has no separate legal register.

The Objectives register gives each objective a plan, a target date, an owner and a status of Active, Achieved or Abandoned. You link objectives to KPIs. On the periodic KPI measurement task, you add the measured figures as evidence.

A requirement can be covered by a policy, scope, risk, opportunity, objective, KPI, procedure, business issue or interested party.

Findings, events and supplier reviews work as they do for ISO 9001.

The Findings register holds audit findings, nonconformities and opportunities, each with a severity of Major, Minor or Opportunity. A Major or Minor finding gets a chain of tasks: Root cause investigation, Corrective action and Effectiveness check.

You record an internal or external audit as an Event of the kind Internal audit or External audit, with its targets and findings. You record a management review as an Event of the kind Management review.

On a supplier, Record a review stores the outcome as Continue, Continue with conditions or Terminate.

Compliance links related requirements across the frameworks you adopt. The crosswalk marks each link as Equivalent, Partial or Related. Evidence, findings and register records can meet requirements in several frameworks.

ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 use the same clause structure for clauses 4 to 10, and the crosswalk links them in both editions. It marks most of those links as Equivalent, so evidence and findings you keep for those clauses can meet requirements in both frameworks. It marks ISO 9001:2026 6.1.1 to ISO 14001:2026 6.1.4 as Partial. It also marks ISO 9001 7.1.5 on monitoring and measuring resources as Partial to ISO 14001 7.1 on resources, in both editions.

The crosswalk also links ISO 14001 to ISO 27001. It marks the shared clauses of ISO 27001, such as 4.1 on context, 9.3 on management review and 10.2 on nonconformity and corrective action, as Equivalent to the same clauses in ISO 14001. It marks ISO 27001 A.5.31 on legal and contractual requirements as Partial to ISO 14001 6.1.3 on compliance obligations. It marks ISO 27001 A.5.37 to ISO 14001 7.5 on documented information as Partial, A.6.3 to 7.3 on awareness as Partial, and A.5.35 to 9.2 on internal audit as Related.

The crosswalk proposes nothing from ISO 9001 or ISO 27001 for 6.1.2 on environmental aspects, 8.2 on emergency preparedness and response, or 9.1.2 on evaluation of compliance. You cover those clauses yourself.

Each audit covers its own framework, even where the crosswalk marks clauses as Equivalent. A supplier review covers one supplier.

Compliance has registers for policies, procedures, risks, opportunities, objectives, KPIs, interested parties, business issues, assets, suppliers, evidence and findings, among others. The registers are shared between the frameworks you adopt, so ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 use the same records.

Compliance scores each risk on a 5×5 likelihood and impact matrix. Treatment actions lower the residual risk score.

Compliance creates recurring review tasks for policies, risks, assets and requirements on schedule. Every task has an owner and a due date, and all tasks appear in one inbox.

Compliance also has an AI assistant on every page. It runs on AI credits, billed in USD, and it is not part of the trial unless you buy AI credits.

Michiel van der Meer built Compliance after taking over an ISMS at Jewel and seeing how much hand-work it took. He needed a better solution, so he built one.

ISO 14001 is €749 per framework per year, excl. VAT. It includes $10 of AI credit per year, billed in USD, and you can buy extra credits. Users in your organisation are unlimited.

You pay for each framework you adopt separately.

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