What changed in ISO 30301, and why the next edition is not asserted
The PRF requirement text is not public, so this page does not quote it and does not guess its changes. What it does show is the committee's own comparison of the 2011 and 2019 editions. That comparison is public, specific and still the best guide to how the standard thinks.
Appraisal moves to the main text
Clause 8.2 now requires a documented, top-management-authorized analysis of what records each business process creates, when and how. The 2011 appraisal wording sat inside Annex A. This is the largest practical change: the decision about what to keep is now a management decision with an approval trail.
Source: ISO/TC 46/SC 11. Read it.
Interested parties and the system itself
Clauses 4.2 and 4.4 are new. The organization has to name interested parties and decide which needs become requirements, and it has to establish, implement, maintain and improve a system rather than a set of documents.
Source: ISO/TC 46/SC 11. Read it.
Annex A is rebuilt
The annex moves from a creation and control structure to three normative sections: records processes (A.1), records controls (A.2) and records systems (A.3). The seven processes and four controls are the vocabulary a gap analysis should use.
Source: ISO/TC 46/SC 11. Read it.
Documented information is simplified
The 2011 list of mandatory statements and documented procedures is gone. The organization chooses the form and amount except where a clause explicitly requires documented information. The control activities are named instead.
Source: ISO/TC 46/SC 11. Read it.
Awareness and communication change shape
The standing training programme is no longer required, and communication is a set of decisions about what, when, with whom and how, not a procedure. The outcomes remain: people know their duties and important messages happen.
Source: ISO/TC 46/SC 11. Read it.
Capturing superseded records
A.1.6 is recorded as a new requirement: when a record supersedes an existing one, the new version has to indicate the obsolete one and the changes made. Version control for manuals, procedures and system documentation is the practical consequence.
Source: ISO/TC 46/SC 11. Read it.
What to do with this
- Read the clause pages for the requirements that apply today, because the certificate you hold is against ISO 30301:2019.
- Check the crosswalk for every procedure that still cites a 2011 number, starting with A.1 and A.2.5.
- Run the free date check against your certificate expiry and next audit.
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The rules this is built from
Every line names its source. The 25 clause-level records and the 3 Annex A records for the requirements that apply today are written from the published ISO 30301:2019, in our words; the evidence and the common gaps are our reading, cited to the clause. The revision layer is read from the public ISO stage record and the committee's published comparison. Where the record is silent, the page says so. Read from the real rules, not invented.
ISO 30301:2019, clause by clause
Each clause page states the requirement in our words, the evidence, the gaps and what to do before the revision lands.
Open the clause indexAnnex A, normative
Processes, controls and systems. Requirements, not guidance, and each one has its own page.
Open Annex AWhat changed in 2019
The committee's own comparison of the 2011 and 2019 editions, with the old clause and its new home.
Read the comparisonThe ISO 30301:2019 text is not reproduced. The ISO/PRF 30301 text is not public and is not reproduced. The record this site reads is linked on the standards page.