# Managing Regulatory Reference Requirements

Quality teams responsible for assessing the impacts of regulation changes to documents can manage these changes in Veeva QualityDocs. By mapping your regulatory requirement object to the document field used to associate regulatory requirements to documents in QualityDocs, your Quality teams save the time and effort it takes to manually map regulatory requirements from spreadsheets to Vault documents, and are provided flexibility in sourcing regulatory content. This feature supports functionality in future releases.

## Configuring Regulatory Requirements

To configure regulatory requirements:

  1. Navigate to **Admin > Configuration > Objects**.
  2. Create a <a href="/en/gr/15057/#create-custom-objects">custom object</a>. We recommend entering **Regulatory Requirements** as the _Label_.
  3. Navigate to **Configuration > Document Fields**.
  4. Create a <a href="/en/gr/592/#create">custom document field</a>.
  5. Return to **Admin > Configuration** and, under _Quality Configurations_, click **Regulatory Reference Management Configurations**.
  6. Click **Create**.
  7. Enter a **Name**.
  8. Select the custom object in the _Regulatory Requirement Object_ drop-down.
  9. Select the custom document field in the _Regulatory Requirement Doc Field_ drop-down.
  10. Click **Save**.

You can associate one or more regulatory requirement records to a document using the document field. Documents can reference more than one regulatory requirement.