ISO 9001:2026

International

vISO 9001:2026, sixth edition (September 2026)

7 domains

58 controls

ISO 9001:2026, the sixth edition of the quality management system requirements standard, published September 2026. It replaces ISO 9001:2015 and adds quality culture and ethical behaviour, separate handling of risks and opportunities and stronger planning of changes; accredited certification moves to it by 30 September 2029.

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ISO 9001:2026 is a compliance framework from International with 7 domains and 58 controls. The largest domains are Operation – ISO 9001:2026 (22 controls), Support – ISO 9001:2026 (13 controls), Performance evaluation – ISO 9001:2026 (8 controls). Every control below carries what it requires and what an assessor expects to see.

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Framework Domains (7)

Context of the organization – ISO 9001:2026

4 controls

Controls in the Context of the organization – ISO 9001:2026 domain of ISO 9001:2026: 4 controls
Code	Title	Description
iso-9001-2026::4.1	Internal and external issues, including climate change	The organization must identify external and internal issues that matter to its purpose and to where it is heading strate...
iso-9001-2026::4.2	Interested parties and their relevant requirements	The organization must identify the interested parties that matter to the quality management system, their relevant requi...
iso-9001-2026::4.3	Scope of the quality management system	The organization must define the boundaries and applicability of the system to set its scope, taking account of the issu...
iso-9001-2026::4.4	Quality management system processes and interactions	The organization must build, run, maintain and keep improving a quality management system with the processes it needs an...

Improvement – ISO 9001:2026

2 controls

Controls in the Improvement – ISO 9001:2026 domain of ISO 9001:2026: 2 controls
Code	Title	Description
iso-9001-2026::10.1	Continual improvement	The organization must keep lifting how suitable, adequate and effective the quality management system is. It must use mo...
iso-9001-2026::10.2	Nonconformity and corrective action	When a nonconformity occurs, the organization must react by controlling and correcting it and dealing with the consequen...

Leadership – ISO 9001:2026

4 controls

Controls in the Leadership – ISO 9001:2026 domain of ISO 9001:2026: 4 controls
Code	Title	Description
iso-9001-2026::5.1.1	Top management leadership and commitment	Top management must show leadership and take accountability for how well the quality management system works. In practic...
iso-9001-2026::5.1.2	Top management customer focus	Top management must show leadership on customer focus by making sure customer needs and applicable legal and regulatory...
iso-9001-2026::5.2	Quality policy content and communication	Top management must set a quality policy that fits the organization's purpose, gives a frame for setting objectives, com...
iso-9001-2026::5.3	Roles, responsibilities and authorities assignment	Top management must assign and communicate the responsibilities and authorities that matter for the system. This include...

Operation – ISO 9001:2026

22 controls

Controls in the Operation – ISO 9001:2026 domain of ISO 9001:2026: 22 controls
Code	Title	Description
iso-9001-2026::8.1	Operational planning and control	The organisation must plan, run and control the processes that deliver products and services and that carry out the acti...
iso-9001-2026::8.2.1	Customer communication	Communication with customers must cover product and service information, enquiries, contracts and orders including chang...
iso-9001-2026::8.2.2	Defining product and service requirements	Before offering products or services, the organisation must define what they must do, covering any applicable legal and...
iso-9001-2026::8.2.3	Review of requirements before commitment	Before agreeing to supply, the organisation must review whether it is able to meet the requirements: customer stated req...
iso-9001-2026::8.2.4	Changes to product and service requirements	When requirements for products or services change, the organisation must update the related documented information and p...
iso-9001-2026::8.3.1	Design and development process	The organisation must set up, operate and keep a design and development process that fits the products and services it w...
iso-9001-2026::8.3.2	Design and development planning	When fixing design and development stages and the controls that apply to them, the organisation must weigh the nature, l...
iso-9001-2026::8.3.3	Design and development inputs	The organisation must establish the requirements that matter for the type of product or service being designed, taking i...
iso-9001-2026::8.3.4	Design and development controls	The organisation must apply controls so that intended results are defined, reviews test whether results can meet require...
iso-9001-2026::8.3.5	Design and development outputs	Outputs must satisfy the input requirements, be usable by the processes that later provide the product or service, inclu...
iso-9001-2026::8.3.6	Design and development changes	The organisation must spot, review and keep control of changes made while design and development is under way or after i...
iso-9001-2026::8.4.1	Control of external provision	The organisation must make sure that processes, products and services obtained from outside meet requirements, and must...
iso-9001-2026::8.4.2	Type and extent of external control	The organisation must make sure outside provision does not undermine its ability to deliver conforming products and serv...
iso-9001-2026::8.4.3	Information for external providers	The organisation must confirm that requirements are adequate before sending them to a provider, then communicate what is...
iso-9001-2026::8.5.1	Control of production and service provision	Work must be carried out under controlled conditions. Those conditions cover defined product characteristics, the steps...
iso-9001-2026::8.5.2	Identification and traceability of outputs	Outputs must be marked or labelled well enough to keep them conforming. Their status against monitoring and measurement...
iso-9001-2026::8.5.3	Customer and external provider property	Property owned by customers or external providers must be handled with care while in the organization's hands, including...
iso-9001-2026::8.5.4	Preservation of outputs	Outputs must be preserved during production and service delivery, as far as needed to keep them conforming. Preservation...
iso-9001-2026::8.5.5	Post-delivery activities	Obligations that follow delivery of the product or service must be met. How far those activities go must be decided from...
iso-9001-2026::8.5.6	Control of changes	Changes affecting production or service delivery must be reviewed and controlled so conformity is maintained. Records mu...
iso-9001-2026::8.6	Release of products and services	Planned checks must be carried out at set stages to confirm that product and service requirements are met. Nothing may g...
iso-9001-2026::8.7	Control of nonconforming outputs	Output that does not meet requirements must be identified and contained so it is not used or delivered by mistake. The r...

Performance evaluation – ISO 9001:2026

8 controls

Controls in the Performance evaluation – ISO 9001:2026 domain of ISO 9001:2026: 8 controls
Code	Title	Description
iso-9001-2026::9.1.1	Deciding what to monitor and measure	The organization must decide what to monitor and measure, which methods give valid results, when measurement takes place...
iso-9001-2026::9.1.2	Customer satisfaction monitoring	Customer satisfaction must be monitored, and the organization must decide how it obtains, watches and reviews that infor...
iso-9001-2026::9.1.3	Analysis and evaluation of data	Data from monitoring and measurement must be analysed and evaluated. The findings must be used to judge conformity of pr...
iso-9001-2026::9.2.1	Purpose of internal audits	Internal audits must run at planned intervals and show whether the quality management system meets the organization's ow...
iso-9001-2026::9.2.2	Internal audit programme	An audit programme must be planned, established, run and maintained, covering how often audits happen, the methods used,...
iso-9001-2026::9.3.1	General review by top management	On a planned schedule, top management must look at the quality management system to confirm it remains suitable, adequat...
iso-9001-2026::9.3.2	Management review inputs	The review must take in the status of earlier actions, shifts in internal and external issues, changed needs of interest...
iso-9001-2026::9.3.3	Management review results	Review outputs must record decisions on improvement opportunities, changes needed to the system and resource needs. Reco...

Planning – ISO 9001:2026

5 controls

Controls in the Planning – ISO 9001:2026 domain of ISO 9001:2026: 5 controls
Code	Title	Description
iso-9001-2026::6.1.1	Determining risks and opportunities	When planning the system, the organization must weigh the issues from 4.1 and the requirements from 4.2 and identify the...
iso-9001-2026::6.1.2	Actions to address risks	The organization must identify, analyse and evaluate risks that could stop it providing conforming products and services...
iso-9001-2026::6.1.3	Actions to address opportunities	The organization must identify, analyse and evaluate opportunities that could help it provide conforming products and se...
iso-9001-2026::6.2	Quality objectives and plans to achieve them	The organization must set quality objectives for the functions, levels and processes where they matter. Objectives must...
iso-9001-2026::6.3	Planned changes to the quality management system	Changes to the quality management system must be carried out in a planned way. Beforehand the organization must consider...

Support – ISO 9001:2026

13 controls

Controls in the Support – ISO 9001:2026 domain of ISO 9001:2026: 13 controls
Code	Title	Description
iso-9001-2026::7.1.1	General resource provision	The organization must decide what resources it needs to set up, run, maintain and improve the system, and must supply th...
iso-9001-2026::7.1.2	People needed for the system	The organization must decide how many people and which skills it needs to operate the system and control its processes e...
iso-9001-2026::7.1.3	Infrastructure for process operation	The organization must identify, supply and keep up the infrastructure its processes need to operate and to produce confo...
iso-9001-2026::7.1.4	Work environment for process operation	The organization must identify, supply and keep up the environment its processes need to operate and to produce conformi...
iso-9001-2026::7.1.5	Monitoring and measuring resources	The organization must provide resources that give valid and reliable results wherever monitoring or measurement is used...
iso-9001-2026::7.1.5.2	Traceability of measurement results	Where traceability of measurement results is required, or the organization treats it as essential for confidence in resu...
iso-9001-2026::7.1.6	Organizational knowledge	The organization must identify the knowledge it needs to run its processes and reach the system's intended results, then...
iso-9001-2026::7.2	Competence of persons doing work	The organization must define the competence needed by people whose work affects system performance, make sure those peop...
iso-9001-2026::7.3	Awareness of policy and objectives	The organization must make sure people working under its control know the quality policy, how their own work contributes...
iso-9001-2026::7.4	Internal and external communication	The organization must decide its internal and external communications for the system. For each it must settle what is co...
iso-9001-2026::7.5.1	Documented information required by the system	The system must include the documented information the standard requires and whatever else the organization decides is n...
iso-9001-2026::7.5.2	Creating and updating documented information	When documents are created or updated, the organization must make sure they are properly identified and described, for e...
iso-9001-2026::7.5.3	Control of documented information	Documented information required by the system and by the standard must be controlled so it is available and usable where...

What is ISO 9001:2026 and who does it apply to?

ISO 9001:2026 is a compliance framework from International with 7 domains and 58 controls. ISO 9001:2026, the sixth edition of the quality management system requirements standard, published September 2026. It replaces ISO 9001:2015 and adds quality culture and ethical behaviour, separate handling of risks and opportunities and stronger planning of changes; accredited certification moves to it by 30 September 2029. It is used by organisations to establish and maintain compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

What does ISO 9001:2026 actually require?

ISO 9001:2026 has 58 controls organised across 7 domains. The largest domains are Operation – ISO 9001:2026 (22 controls), Support – ISO 9001:2026 (13 controls), Performance evaluation – ISO 9001:2026 (8 controls). Each control defines specific requirements that organisations must implement to achieve compliance.

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