In recent years, the global economy, trade and various cooperative relations have become increasingly complex, and the operations of all types of organizations are facing unprecedented uncertainties and a wider range of risks. Against the backdrop of an increasingly complex international environment, compliance has become an important prerequisite for the safe and sound development of enterprises and other organizations, and demand for compliance management has emerged across the global market.

For Chinese enterprises, strengthening compliance governance and fostering a robust compliance culture have become mandatory courses to forge ahead steadily and compliantly amid intricate environments. Accelerating benchmarking against world-leading enterprises in compliance management has become a prevailing trend.

ISO 37301:2021 Compliance Management Systems — Requirements with Guidance for Use. Adopting a risk-based mindset, the process approach and PDCA logic, ISO 37301 provides requirements and guidance for organizations to establish, develop, implement, evaluate, maintain and improve an effective compliance management system based on compliance governance principles.

ISO 37301 adopts the management system standard structure set out in Annex SL of the ISO/IEC Directives, making it easier to integrate the compliance management system with other existing organizational management systems built on ISO standards. This standard helps organizations enhance their capability to meet compliance-related requirements under other management systems and improves their overall administration of compliance obligations.