ISO 9000 ApprovedIt was announced today by the Technical Committee ISO/TC 176 that ISO 9000 (Quality management systems – Fundamental and vocabulary), has been approved for publication. In totlal 58 member countries took part in the vote and 2 countries disapproved (Finland and Italy) and 3 abstained (Qatar, Luxemburg and Kazakhstan).

It is expected that ISO 9000 (2015) will be published on the same day as the ISO 9001 standard (possibly 23rd September 2015).

ISO 9000 give the terms, definitions and vocabulary used in the ISO 900 Family of Standards, which includes ISO 9001. For more information please see ISO 9000 Family of Standards