SR EN ISO 37001:2025
Anti-bribery management systems - Requirements with guidance for use
What is the ISO 37001:2025 standard?
The standard specifies requirements and provides guidance for establishing, implementing, maintaining, analyzing, and improving an anti-bribery management system. The system can be standalone or integrated into an overall management system. The standard addresses the following aspects related to the organization's activities: — bribery in the public, private, and non-profit sectors; — bribery by the organization; — bribery by the organization's personnel acting on behalf or for the benefit of the organization; — bribery by the organization's business partners acting on behalf or for the benefit of the organization; — bribery of the organization; — bribery of the organization's personnel related to the organization's activities; — bribery of the organization's business partners related to the organization's activities; — direct and indirect bribery (e.g., a bribe offered or accepted through or by a third party). The standard's requirements are generic and intended to be applicable to all organizations (or parts of an organization), regardless of type, size, or nature of activities and regardless of operating in the public, private, or non-profit sectors.
What is an anti-bribery management system and why do we need one?
The international standard ISO 9000:2015 defines the term management system as “a set of interrelated or interacting elements of an organization to establish policies, objectives, and processes to achieve those objectives. A complete management system covers every aspect of management and focuses on supporting performance management to achieve goals. The management system should be subject to continuous improvement as the organization improves.”
How can we help you?
Wert Audit can assist you by providing the following services:
- - certification of the anti-bribery management system;
- - training for auditing anti-bribery management systems within your own organization or other organizations, for example suppliers of the organization in which you operate;
- - consultancy for developing and implementing the anti-bribery management system;
- - internal audit or auditing suppliers of the organization in which you operate.
To comply with the impartiality principle required by the standard SR EN ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 for certification bodies, Wert Audit cannot provide consultancy, training, or internal audit services to legal entities requesting certification or to those already certified at the time of the request. Also, legal entities for which Wert Audit has provided consultancy, training, or internal audit services cannot receive certification services for a minimum period of 2 years after the completion of those services.