The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom Department for Transport, and is the UKs Type Approval authority, and a leading certification body.
VCA have been supporting the automotive industry since the early 1970s, with offices in the UK, North America, Japan (Asia Pacific), Korea, China, Italy, Malaysia, India and Australia.
The services that VCA provide include Type Approval testing and certification for all road-going vehicles, including cars, trucks, motorcycles, agricultural vehicles, buses and coaches, ambulances, fire engines and motor caravans, and replacement part systems and components.
They also provide ISO Management Systems Certification to:
- ISO 9001
- ISO/TS 16949
- ISO 14001
- OHSAS 18001
- Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
- Acorn
VCA are also responsible for the production of the New Car Fuel Consumption and Emission Figures booklet, published annually and available free of charge from all new car dealers, or direct from VCA. They also manage the on-line database containing the latest data for new cars, which includes a Vehicle Excise Duty calculator.
Famous quotes containing the words vehicle and/or agency:
“How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other thing is black except a coffin—a vehicle evoking lawless adventures in the plashing stillness of night, and still more strongly evoking death itself, the bier, the dark obsequies, the last silent journey!”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)