Quality Insights Volume 8: Focusing on the UN SDGs, TISAX® and MDR

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and in the future.

Organizations that want to remain competitive in the digital age must pay close attention to information security. This is particularly true for the automotive industry, where massive amounts of confidential data is exchanged daily.

After lengthy and in-depth discussions, Germany’s parliament passed its new Supply Chain Due Diligence Act in June, making human rights due diligence mandatory from 2023.

The European Union’s (EU) Medical Device Regulation (MDR) EU 2017/745 has come into force. The aim is to enhance European patient safety and device traceability and transparency.

Supply chain risks come in all shapes and sizes, including environmental pollution, shortages of raw materials and natural resources, workforce health and safety incidents, labor disputes, bribery and corruption, and geopolitical considerations.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is an up-to-date scientific understanding of planetary warming and current and future impacts.

ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is the globally recognized standard for an information security management system (ISMS). An ISMS is a framework to inform an organization’s risk management process. The standard aims to: Examine the risks to an organization’s information and implement controls to manage them Manage threats to information assets Establish, maintain and continually improve an ISMS