Lukasz Cyra, Janusz Górski Gdask University of Technology, Poland Department of Software Engineering e-mails: lukasz.cyra@eti.pg.gda.pl, jango@pg.gda.pl, Standard Compliance Framework for Effective Requirements Communication Abstract Standard Compliance Framework (SCF) is a framework, which supports application of standards at the stages of achieving, assessing and maintaining the compliance. It uses Trust Case language to develop argument structures demonstrating compliance with standards. The paper presents how SCF is applied to increase effectiveness of requirements communication. Relevant mechanisms of the framework are thoroughly described referring to the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 standard. Two case studies of the framework application, one in a project aimed at assessing the compliance, another in a project aimed at achieving the compliance are presented. Keywords: SCF, Standard Compliance Framework, Trust Case, Trust Case Template, ISO/IEC 27001 Introduction Standards play an important role on the contemporary market. Statistics show that companies spent about 50 million dollars on ISO publications in 2006 [7], which is only a small fraction of the budget spent on achieving, assessing and maintaining the compliance (e.g. a day of an auditor’s work costs usually much more than the standard itself and the  full paper published in: Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Volume 16 no. 5B, 2007, pp. 312-316 Proceedings of the 14 th International Multi-Conference Advanced Computer Systems, 17-19 October 2007, Miedzyzdroje, Poland Paper published in the journal and presented at the conference