ISO 9001 version 2026: time for public inquiry

From September 5 to October 14, 2025, AFNOR is organizing a public consultation on the future ISO 9001 standard. Are you interested in quality? Send us your comments!

Published on 26/08/2025 Reading time : 5 minutes

In November 2023, we announced the launch of work to revise ISO 9001, the most famous of the international voluntary standards for management systems, available in France as NF EN ISO 9001 in the AFNOR collection. The latest version is ten years old, and it’s high time it was updated! Indeed, this text, adopted by millions of companies worldwide, deals with a subject – quality – that has itself taken on a whole new dimension in the space of ten years. Data quality, quality of life in the workplace, quality of customer relations with the rise of disruptive channels linked to e-commerce and social networks… The new challenges are many!

So much so that in February 2024, the standard was enriched by an amendment, NF EN ISO 9001/A1 , inviting us to make climate change a point of attention in the deployment of a quality policy in due form. By identifying the risks and opportunities required by ISO 9001, the company will be better able to pinpoint the threats it faces, particularly climatic ones, such as a water shortage in our example. Such risks threaten business continuity. It’s a question of quality we explained in this article from November 2024.

ISO 9001 version 2026: ten weeks of public inquiry

After numerous meetings involving professionals from many countries, including one in France at AFNOR in the spring of 2025, the text is now ready for public inquiry. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has scheduled the start of this stage for Tuesday, August 27, 2025. For France, AFNOR will open the window on September 5, 2025, for a period of five weeks. We will close the consultation on October 14, 2025, to then build the definitive French position and submit it to ISO, which will do the same with the contributions of all the other countries,” explains Pauline Joris, who is in charge of the project and the quality domain at AFNOR. You can send your comments on the text to via your Norminfo account. Several paragraphs will probably be rewritten to take account of the following points:

These additions will undoubtedly lead to a change in the approach to risks and opportunities, one of the foundations common to all major management system standards, by separating the two into sub-paragraphs. This will result in new text formulations in chapters 6 (planning) and 9 (performance evaluation). In the spirit of what we mentioned above about water shortages, chapter 6 will open up to risks linked to business continuity, by stipulating that the organization must identify, analyze and assess the risks that may affect its ability to continuously and systematically deliver compliant products and services after a disruption. Also under discussion are the notion of customer experience and the consideration of emerging technologies. Rest assured, four notions remain unchanged:

  • Goals
  • Field of application
  • PDCA logic(plan, do, check, act)
  • Risk-based approach

Scheduled for release in all countries in October 2026, the new version of the standard is steered by an ISO technical committee, TC 176 , which recently passed under French presidency and Norwegian secretariat. This gives France and AFNOR strategic visibility, and enables them to join the select circle of players who shape cross-cutting management system standards, influencing all sector-specific management system standards. It’s a powerful act of soft power! The proposed chairman of TC 176, Cédric Meunier, from the Renault Group, a major player in French industry, is sending out a strong signal: that of putting end-users – companies and certifiers – back at the heart of standards decisions.

Regional ISO 9001 workshops

To help you keep abreast of developments in ISO 9001, the AFNOR group is organizing a series of regional workshops:

  • September 16, 2025 in Caen
  • October 3, 2025 in Rennes
  • October 9, 2025 in Rouen
  • October 14, 2025 in Montpellier
  • October 31, 2025 in Toulouse
  • November 6, 2025 in Nancy
  • November 25, 2025 in Colombier-Fontaine
  • November 27, 2025 in Le Port (La Réunion)
  • December 4, 2025 at Mérignac, Nantes and Orléans
  • December 5, 2025 in Ronchin
  • December 9, 2025 in Tours
  • December 12, 2025 in Amiens
  • January 22, 2026 in Dunkirk

Not forgetting :

See you on September 5 to take part in the public inquiry.



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