About VCA
VCA is an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom Department for Transport and the United Kingdom's national approval authority for new road vehicles, agricultural tractors and off-road vehicles. Our status allows close links with the UK Government and European policy formulation and enforcement of vehicle safety and environmental standards. We bring the authority and back-up of Government, but with the freedom to react to your changing needs.
Our main headquarters office is in Bristol, with an office and test facilities on the MIRA site at Nuneaton and an office at the Millbrook Proving Ground near Milton Keynes. Worldwide we have offices in the US, Japan, Malaysia, China, India and Australia. We also have agents in many other locations around the world, enabling us to satisfy the needs of vehicle manufacturers - wherever they are based.
We pride ourselves in providing expert international test and certification services for vehicles and vehicle parts. Our approval certificates are recognised without question throughout the European Community and the wider group of countries belonging to the European Economic Area and the Geneva-based United Nations organisation (ECE).
As a leading European approval and quality/environmental management system certification body, we have long experience of dealing with the complexities of vehicle approval and manufacture. Our staff are specialists in their fields enabling us to offer a fully integrated and flexible service, ready to meet our customers' needs.
The value of working with VCA - Type Approval Customers
The value of working with VCA - MSC customers
To browse the range of services VCA provides, please follow the appropriate links from the Home Page.
To see our Information Charter, please follow this link: Information Charter
To see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's), please follow this link: FAQ's - General
To see a copy of our latest Annual Report, please follow this link: VCA Annual Report 2006 / 2007
To see a copy of our Business Plan, please follow this link:
Follow this link to the latest Updatenews publication: Updatenews Winter 2007/08
Our policy on Sustainability Operations can be found here: VCA Sustainability and Greening Operations
Our current Sustainability plan is here: Sustainable Development - Action Plan 2008 - 2009
Follow this link to the DfT's Sustainable Development Action Plan: http://www.dft.gov.uk/about/how/sda/
