(ISO: Geneva) -- A new edition of ISO 9001 is being submitted for voting as a final draft international standard. Subject to formal approval by the ISO membership, the publication of the revised version is expected to be published this fall.

The proposed ISO 9001:2008 doesn’t introduce additional requirements compared to the last edition in 2000 and doesn’t change the intent of ISO 9001:2000.

The draft international standard was approved at the May 19–23, 2008, meeting of ISO technical committee ISO/TC 176—“Quality management and quality assurance,” held in Novi Sad, Serbia, and hosted by ISS, the Serbian national standards body. ISO 9001 will be circulated in July as a final draft, on which ISO’s national member bodies as a whole may vote.

ISO 9001 provides the requirements for a quality management system (QMS), which is a framework for an organization to control its processes to achieve objectives including customer satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and continual improvement.

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