PECB ISO 14001 ISO-14001-Lead-Auditor Question # 8 Topic 1 Discussion

As per ISO 14001:2015 Clause 10 (Improvement) and Clause 9 (Performance Evaluation):

The 'Check' phase includes activities that evaluate performance, such as:

Clause 9.1:

“The organization shall monitor, measure, analyze and evaluate its environmental performance.”

Clause 10.2:

“When a nonconformity occurs, the organization shall react to the nonconformity, evaluate the need for corrective action.”

Management review is part of the 'Act' phase (Clause 9.3), and Environmental Policy (Clause 5.2) belongs to 'Plan'.