The new international standard ISO 14001:2015 is voluntary and will allow organizations to obtain certification for their environmental management systems.

The previous version corresponds to the ISO 14001:2004 standard of the ISO 14000 family of standards, it is currently in a review period that began in February 2012. In the new version of ISO 14001 we highlight the changes in terms of its structure established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that we can already see in the ISO/IEC 27001 standard and to which they are already being implemented. adapting other standards such as ISO 9001.

The person in charge of the review process of the ISO 14001 standard from 2004 and future standard development is the committee TC 207/SC1, its Secretary falls to the British Standards Institution (BSI).

From the first version of the ISO 14001:1996 standard to the current version, 7 years have passed. The next version will be made public in 2015, after 11 years have passed. ISO periodically reviews this type of international standards to ensure that the contents and requirements are up to date and to facilitate adaptation to the latest trends and regulatory changes.

The review process has an expected duration of 3 years. The first meetings held by this committee were held during 2012, since then more meetings have been held that have led to the preparation of documents in which the changes made to ISO 14001 are appreciated.

The publication schedule of these documents:

The new ISO 14001 presents changes, among them we highlight, thanks to Annex SL, the high-level structure that the new 2015 version will present and that will be common to the rest of the ISO standards.[1]​.

The sections that will be part of the new structure are the following:

The most important changes to highlight in the latest version of ISO 14001:2015 are:[2]​.

ISO 14001 certification involves a process that generally follows these steps:.

New ISO 14001 Standard

Sheet 14001:2004 - ISOTools.