ISO 37301:2021

ISO 37301:2021 — Compliance Management Systems — Audit Checklist

ISO 37301:2021 (Compliance management systems — Requirements with guidance for use)

ISO 37301:2021 audit checklist. Compliance obligations, compliance risk assessment, compliance culture and governance, the compliance function, controls, raising concerns, investigations, monitoring and management review — Clauses 4–10, full-split.

For the compliance officer or compliance-function lead operating, building or certifying a compliance management system — this standard is your own discipline, written down.

ISO 37301 reads as seven management-system clauses, but the obligations that matter — a live compliance-obligations register, a periodic compliance risk assessment, an independent compliance function with board access, a protected speak-up channel and impartial investigations — are easy to leave half-built. This walks every shall.

Why now

ISO 37301:2021 is the current edition. Certification and customer/board assurance both turn on evidencing each clause — not just having a policy.

What you get for €450

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Every provision mapped

All 94 audit questions trace to a specific article, annex or clause of ISO 37301:2021. Nothing is hand-waved: each provision is either covered by one or more questions or explicitly recorded as informational. The free Compliance Matrix proves it, line by line.

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Built to survive scrutiny

Authored and reviewed by compliance management professionals with decades of regulatory experience, against a stated version of ISO 37301:2021. Source text is reproduced verbatim per question, with suggested evidence inline — so an auditor (or a regulator) can follow every answer back to the regulation.

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Hundreds of hours, ready Monday

The decomposition, evidence prompts and classification scheme are done. Five ready-to-use formats, delivered on payment, that drop straight into your audit process or your GRC tool — instead of months building a checklist from the raw regulation.

COMPLIANCE MATRIX — FREE, UNGATED

Every provision of ISO 37301:2021, accounted for.

Before you spend a cent, download the Compliance Matrix. Every leaf of the regulation appears as a row, with its coverage status and the audit questions that map to it. It is the proof that this checklist is complete — and the artefact your own auditor can use to check the checker.

94 Audit questions
100% Provisions accounted for
5 Artefact formats
12 Months of updates

Authored and reviewed by compliance management professionals. Reviewed against v2021-04; each Compliance Matrix states the exact version it was verified against.

Download the Compliance Matrix ↓ PDF · free · no email required · current as of v2021-04

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ISO 37301:2021 — sample audit checklist

The first section rendered in full, plus the table of contents for the rest, watermarked SAMPLE. See exactly how the questions, evidence prompts and source text read before you buy. Free, no email required.

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Pricing

One regulation, one organisation, 12 months of updates included. A single invoice — not a subscription, nothing auto-debited.

Every amendment to ISO 37301:2021 within your 12-month window is re-rendered against the new version and emailed to you automatically. When the 12 months end you keep every artefact you've downloaded — you simply stop receiving new amendments unless you renew.

Licence Price What it covers
Single organisation €450 Use across your organisation, 12 months of updates, all five artefact formats plus the Compliance Matrix.

Licensing for a group of separate legal entities? Contact us for group licensing.

What you'll receive

Five formats of the same reviewed content, covering the full ISO 37301:2021, delivered by email the moment payment clears. Every amendment during your 12-month window is re-rendered and emailed automatically. Everything you download is yours to keep.

  • 01 Audit Checklist The auditor's working document. Per-question blocks with a compliance state, four-state classification and finding-level boxes, the regulation source text verbatim plus suggested evidence inline, and a management-system reference field. Print-ready. PDF
  • 02 Audit Checklist The same content as plain text. Diff it against last year's edition, drop it into Confluence / Notion / your internal wiki via pandoc, or feed it to internal review tooling. MD
  • 03 Audit Workbook Multi-sheet workbook mirroring the PDF: cover, per-section sheets with dropdowns and conditional formatting, Findings Log, Cross-Reference Register and Dashboard. XLSX
  • 04 Data Bank A flat one-row-per-question table. The universal format for upload into third-party audit and GRC software, or your own in-house tooling. Opens directly in Excel. CSV
  • 05 Question Bank A lean structured schema: citation, regulatory hook, question text, classification options, severity, applicability. A stable XSD contract for structured ingestion into third-party audit and GRC software. XML