When a standard is revised, every certified organisation gets a window to move to the new edition. Miss it and the certificate stops being valid, whatever date is printed on it. Here is where each of the six standards we certify to currently stands.
31 October 2025 — passed
The transition from the 2013 edition is over. A certificate naming ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is no longer valid regardless of the expiry date printed on it. If you hold one, you are not currently certified.
IAF →Revision under development — no transition date set
A revision has been in development. Nothing is required of you until a new edition is published and the accreditation bodies set a transition period, which is normally three years. Do not plan against a date until one exists.
ISO →Climate amendment already in force
The February 2024 climate change amendment applies now. No transition audit is needed, but your context determination should show you considered whether climate change is relevant, and an auditor may ask.
ISO →Climate amendment already in force
As above — the amendment adds no clause and no transition audit, but the consideration must have happened and be evidenced in your context and interested-party analysis.
ISO →No transition — first edition
Nothing to transition from. The open question for this standard is not the edition but whether accredited certification is available at all: EIAC does not list it as an accreditation scheme.
ISO →Set by the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi
Version and compliance dates are set by the Department, not by ISO or an accreditation body, and can change on a circular. Check the Department’s own resources page — it is the authority here.
Department of Health – Abu Dhabi →| Standard | Status | Deadline | What you need to do | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001 edition 2022 | Transition closed | 31 October 2025 — passed | The transition from the 2013 edition is over. A certificate naming ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is no longer valid regardless of the expiry date printed on it. If you hold one, you are not currently certified. | IAF → |
| ISO 9001 edition 2015 | Revision in progress | Revision under development — no transition date set | A revision has been in development. Nothing is required of you until a new edition is published and the accreditation bodies set a transition period, which is normally three years. Do not plan against a date until one exists. | ISO → |
| ISO 14001 edition 2015 | Amended | Climate amendment already in force | The February 2024 climate change amendment applies now. No transition audit is needed, but your context determination should show you considered whether climate change is relevant, and an auditor may ask. | ISO → |
| ISO 45001 edition 2018 | Amended | Climate amendment already in force | As above — the amendment adds no clause and no transition audit, but the consideration must have happened and be evidenced in your context and interested-party analysis. | ISO → |
| ISO/IEC 42001 edition 2023 | Current | No transition — first edition | Nothing to transition from. The open question for this standard is not the edition but whether accredited certification is available at all: EIAC does not list it as an accreditation scheme. | ISO → |
| ADHICS edition V2.0 | Current | Set by the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi | Version and compliance dates are set by the Department, not by ISO or an accreditation body, and can change on a circular. Check the Department’s own resources page — it is the authority here. | Department of Health – Abu Dhabi → |
When ISO publishes a new edition, the accreditation bodies set a transition period — normally three years from publication. During it, both editions are valid. After it, certificates against the old edition cease to be valid even if their printed expiry date has not arrived. This surprises people every cycle.
Moving is usually done at a surveillance or recertification audit already scheduled, with additional audit time for the new requirements, rather than as a separate exercise. Leaving it until the final months is the common and avoidable mistake: capacity across every certification body tightens at exactly the moment everyone needs it.
Because the edition matters this much, every UMA certificate names the edition audited against, and so does the public register. A certificate that does not name an edition is not telling you what was actually assessed.
This page is a summary maintained in good faith and is not authoritative. Dates change, and an accreditation body or regulator can amend a transition period. The linked source governs.