Catalogue description Records of the Vehicle Certification Agency
Reference: | VCA |
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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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