Solution: ISO/IEC 42001
Solution: ISO/IEC 42001
ISO/IEC 42001 - Certify Your AI Applications
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ISO/IEC 42001 - Certify Your AI Applications
What is ISO/IEC 42001?
ISO/IEC 42001 is the world’s first international standard for an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS). It gives your organisation a structured, auditable framework for governing how AI is designed, developed, deployed, and used. This is built on the same proven Plan-Do-Check-Act model as ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO 27001 (information security).
Where those standards manage quality and information security, ISO/IEC 42001 addresses the concerns specific to AI: algorithmic bias, transparency and explainability, autonomous decision-making, data governance, human oversight, and the impact of AI systems on safety and fundamental rights. It applies to any organisation that develops, provides, or uses AI across every sector.
ISO/IEC 42001 is a certifiable standard.
TÜV Austria Belgium can audit your AI management system and issue a certificate that demonstrates, to customers, regulators, and partners, that your organisation governs AI responsibly.
Why it matters?
AI governance is moving from voluntary good practice to commercial and regulatory expectation. ISO/IEC 42001 is rapidly becoming the de facto benchmark for trustworthy AI increasingly requested in vendor selection and procurement. It can be used by you as an organisation as evidence of responsible AI management.
It also maps closely to the EU AI Act, which is phasing in obligations through 2026 and beyond, including transparency and documentation requirements for general-purpose AI and conformity, risk-management, data-governance, logging, and human-oversight requirements for high-risk systems. Implementing ISO/IEC 42001 covers a large share of the AI Act’s high-risk documentation requirements and is widely regarded as the fastest credible path to demonstrating AI Act conformance.
Who this is for
Organisations that develop, deploy, or rely on AI systems. In particular the following roles in your organisation are involved: AI product owners, compliance leads, data/ML teams, and QA functions responsible for governing them.
What the standard covers
A compliant AI management system brings together the policies, processes, and controls needed to govern AI responsibly, including:
- AI policy and governance – clear roles, responsibilities, and leadership accountability for AI.
- Risk and impact assessment – identifying and managing risks to people, including bias, safety, and fundamental rights.
- Data and lifecycle management – governing data quality, model development, testing, deployment, and post-market monitoring.
- Transparency and human oversight – ensuring AI decisions can be understood, explained, and overseen.
- Continual improvement – monitoring performance and improving the system over time.
Our ISO/IEC 42001 services
TÜV AUSTRIA Belgium supports you across the full journey, from first assessment to certification:
- Readiness assessment & gap analysis: measuring your current AI governance against the requirements of ISO/IEC 42001 and identifying what’s needed to close the gap.
- AI Act alignment: mapping your management system to the relevant EU AI Act obligations, so a single effort serves both standard and regulation.
- Technical documentation support: building audit-ready documentation in line with EU AI Act (Art. 11), ISO/IEC 42001, and the TÜV AUSTRIA TRUSTED AI framework.
- Pre-certification & certification: independent assessment and certification of your AI management system against ISO/IEC 42001.
- Surveillance & continual improvement: ongoing support to keep your system effective and your certification maintained.
Key benefits
- Demonstrate trustworthy AI with an independently certified management system.
- Get ahead of the EU AI Act by covering a large share of its documentation and governance requirements in one effort.
- Win and keep business as ISO/IEC 42001 becomes a procurement and vendor-selection expectation.
- Manage AI risk systematically: bias, transparency, oversight, and safety rather than case by case.
- One framework, lasting value: a governance system that adapts as your AI portfolio and the regulatory landscape evolve.
Why TÜV AUSTRIA
As an independent third party, TÜV AUSTRIA brings the credibility that turns AI governance from a claim into a certified fact. We combine deep regulatory understanding of the EU AI Act and of the ISO/IEC 42001 standard with our own TÜV AUSTRIA TRUSTED AI framework so you get both the standard’s requirements and the practical know-how to meet them, from readiness through to certification.




















