Catalogue description Records of the Vehicle Certification Agency

Details of VCA
Reference: VCA
Title: Records of the Vehicle Certification Agency
Description:

Records created or inherited by the Vehicle Certification Agency.

For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

Date: 2000-2018
Related material:

For earlier records please see: Division within MT

Records created or inherited by the Department for Transport, please see: DFT
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Vehicle Certification Agency, 1990-
Physical description: 3 series
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport. It was established on 1 April 1990, becoming an agency in 1993. The VCA is the UK's national approval authority for new road vehicles, agricultural tractors and off-road vehicles, responsible for ensuring that vehicles and vehicle parts have been designed and constructed to meet iinternationally agreed standards of safety and safety protection.

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