Compliance Obligation
What is Compliance Obligation?
A legal or regulatory requirement that an organization must fulfill to avoid penalties, sanctions, or other adverse consequences.
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What the standards actually require on compliance obligation
Requirements naming compliance obligation across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
How compliance obligations are identified and kept up to date. It is rated on two dimensions, each against the five-level scale in 5.2. Policy and procedures with conduct and culture: level 1, no procedures;
iso-37302-2025::6.1.2 · Identification and update of compliance obligations →Guidance: the organization should decide which of the needs and expectations held by relevant interested parties bind it, and which of the others it will take on voluntarily; together these are its compliance obligations, detailed further in 6.1.3.
iso-14004-2016::4.2.4 · Determining compliance obligations →The organization identifies the compliance obligations that relate to its environmental aspects and makes sure it can consult them, works out how each applies to it, and takes them into account throughout setting up, running, maintaining and continually improv...
iso-14001-2015::6.1.3 · Compliance obligations →The organization shall identify, and be able to consult, the compliance obligations that relate to its environmental aspects; work out how those obligations apply to it;
iso-14001-2026::6.1.3 · Compliance obligations →The organization shall systematically identify the compliance obligations that stem from what it does and from its products and services, and evaluate their impact on its operations;
iso-37301-2021::4.5 · Compliance obligations →The organization must identify the compliance obligations that bear on its sustainability issues and be able to consult them, work out how each applies, and keep documented information on them. Compliance obligations may create risks and opportunities.
iso-37101-2016::6.1.3 · Compliance obligations →Questions people ask about compliance obligation
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