Framework overlap

Does ISO 37301:2021 cover ISO 14004:2016?

You hold ISO 37301:2021 and have been told to do ISO 14004:2016. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

68% of ISO 14004:2016 you already have

ISO 37301:2021 already covers about 68% of ISO 14004:2016, leaving 13 of 40 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 14 Likely covered 13 New work 13

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 37301:2021 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

10.3.1
Opportunities for improvement
10.3.2
Implementation of continual improvement
3.1
Terms related to organization and leadership
3.2
Terms related to planning
3.3
Terms related to support and operation
3.4
Terms related to performance evaluation and improvement
4.2.3
Determining relevant needs and expectations of relevant interested parties
4.2.5
Use and application of the needs and expectations of interested parties
6.1.2
Environmental aspects
7.4.2
Internal communication
7.4.3
External communication
8.2
E mergency p rep arednes s and res p o ns e
9.1
M o nito ring, meas urement, analys is and evaluatio n
Show the 27 you already have
10.3
Continual improvement
4.1
Understanding the organization and its context
4.2
Understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties
5.1
Leadership and commitment
5.3
Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
6.1
Actions to address risks and opportunities
6.1.3
Compliance obligations
7.5
Documented information
7.5.2
Creating and updating
7.5.3
Control of documented information
8.1
Operational planning and control
8.1.1
General guidance: Operational control
9.2
Internal audit
9.3
Management review
4.2.2
Determining relevant interested parties
4.2.4
Determining compliance obligations
6.1.4
Planning action
6.2
Environmental objectives and planning to achieve them
6.2.2
Establishing environmental objectives
6.2.3
Planning actions to achieve environmental objectives
6.2.4
Performance indicators
7.1
Resources
7.2
Competence
7.3
Awareness
7.4
Communication
8.1.3
Establishing operational controls
9.1.2
Evaluation of compliance

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 37301:2021 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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