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Bureau Veritas review

Certification body

The UK branch of Bureau Veritas, a global testing and certification group. UKAS accredits it for 11 standards including ISO 27001, but not ISO/IEC 42001 for AI.

Relevant if you need UKAS-accredited ISO 27001, ISO 9001 or nuclear supply-chain certification, not ISO 42001

Price Not published
Indemnity cover Not published
How it uses AI Not published
Facts last checked

Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages.

Bureau Veritas scores

Six scores, each 1 to 5. The evidence for each is further down.

Help when things go wrong 3/5
Qualifications of the people who do the work 3/5
What it publishes about fees 1/5
Knowledge of your sector 4/5
Independence from what it sells 3/5
Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong 3/5

What Bureau Veritas offers, and what it publishes

Bureau Veritas holds UKAS accreditation for 11 management-system standards, including ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and the nuclear supply-chain standard ISO 19443. ISO/IEC 42001, for AI management, is not among them. Bureau Veritas Italy says it holds 42001 accreditation from Accredia, and the UK certification page does not offer it.

Bureau Veritas does not publish a price. Its UK certification page offers only a free-quote form. It does not publish its insurance or liability terms. The UK branch's French parent last filed UK accounts for 2014. It does publish an impartiality statement and a complaints and appeals process.

The Bureau Veritas group reported €6,466.4 million revenue and 82,049 staff for its 2025 financial year. A related UK company, Bureau Veritas UK Limited, reported £93.67 million turnover and 858 staff for 2023. Its corporate Trustpilot profile, which it has not claimed, shows 1.7 out of 5 from 24 reviews.

Strengths

  • Genuinely UKAS-accredited for a wide range of management-system standards including ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 45001, ISO 22000 and the nuclear-sector standard ISO 19443
  • Published impartiality statement and internal/external Impartiality Committees that review certification-process threats to objectivity at least annually
  • Extensive named sector coverage (commodities and agriculture, automotive, buildings and infrastructure, healthcare, marine, petrochemicals, power, renewables, aerospace, cybersecurity)
  • Backed by a large global TIC group with deep technical resources across regulated industries

Things to check

  • Not UKAS-accredited for ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management systems); Bureau Veritas holds this accreditation only via Italy's Accredia
  • Operates as part of a large multinational TIC conglomerate, the same large multi-service-firm scale profile this site flags elsewhere (e.g. Forvis Mazars)
  • Poor independently checkable Trustpilot rating (1.7/5 'Bad' from 24 reviews) on an unclaimed corporate profile
  • The exact UK branch entity holding the UKAS accreditation has not filed UK accounts since 2014

Common questions

Is Bureau Veritas UKAS-accredited for ISO/IEC 42001?

No. Its UKAS schedule, Issue No. 226 of 4 June 2026, does not include ISO/IEC 42001. Bureau Veritas Italy says it holds 42001 accreditation from Accredia, Italy's national accreditation body, not from UKAS.

Does Bureau Veritas publish its prices?

No. Its UK certification page offers only a 'Get a free quote for certification services' form, with no rate card.

What is its Trustpilot rating?

1.7 out of 5, rated 'Bad', from 24 reviews on its unclaimed corporate profile. That profile covers the whole company, not its UK certification work.

Evidence for each Bureau Veritas score

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Notes behind each thing to check

  • Not UKAS-accredited for ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management systems); Bureau Veritas holds this accreditation only via Italy's Accredia (Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS - UK Branch's live UKAS Schedule of Accreditation (ref. 0008, Issue No. 226, issued 4 June 2026), fetched and full-text searched directly on 17 July 2026, contains no mention of ISO/IEC 42001 or AIMS, and its UK certification services page does not list ISO 42001 among its offerings)
  • Operates as part of a large multinational TIC conglomerate, the same large multi-service-firm scale profile this site flags elsewhere (e.g. Forvis Mazars) (Bureau Veritas Group reported €6,466.4m revenue and 82,049 employees worldwide for FY2025, and a related UK operating entity alone reports £93.67m turnover and 858 employees)
  • Poor independently checkable Trustpilot rating (1.7/5 'Bad' from 24 reviews) on an unclaimed corporate profile (Bureau Veritas's corporate Trustpilot profile at trustpilot.com/review/bureauveritas.com shows a 1.7-star rating from 24 reviews, checked live on 17 July 2026)
  • The exact UK branch entity holding the UKAS accreditation has not filed UK accounts since 2014 (Companies House shows the overseas parent Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS (FC018071), of which the UK branch BR002542 is an establishment, last filed accounts made up to 31 December 2014)
Six criteria, each scored 1 to 5, with the evidence for each.
CriterionScoreEvidence
Help when things go wrong 3/5 General certification process documentation describes surveillance audits and a suspension/withdrawal process for non-conformities, but no named lead auditors or disclosed outcome case studies were found
Qualifications of the people who do the work 3/5 Bureau Veritas holds genuinely broad UKAS accreditation across 11 management-system standards, but its UK branch is not UKAS-accredited for ISO/IEC 42001 (AIMS), a meaningful gap versus peers on this site that do hold it
What it publishes about fees 1/5 No prices, rate card or worked cost examples are published; the UK site offers only a 'free quote' contact form
Knowledge of your sector 4/5 Bureau Veritas publishes an unusually long list of named sector specialisms including a dedicated nuclear supply chain scheme (ISO 19443) alongside general industry sectors
Independence from what it sells 3/5 A published impartiality statement and worldwide Impartiality Committees exist, but the fetched text addresses consultancy separation only indirectly via a general 'self-review threat' category rather than a single explicit separation clause
Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong 3/5 A published complaints/appeals process exists with dedicated online forms, but no explicit UK response-time commitment or liability/insurance disclosure was found

Sources for Bureau Veritas

  • UKAS accreditation does not currently cover ISO/IEC 42001 (AIMS) (Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS - UK Branch's live UKAS Schedule of Accreditation (ref. 0008), Issue No. 226, issued 4 June 2026, lists ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 19443, ISO/IEC 20000-1, ISO 22000, ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO 45001, ISO 50001 and ISO 55001 as accredited scope; a full-text search of the document for '42001', 'AIMS' and 'Artificial Intelligence Management System' returns zero matches, confirmed by direct PDF fetch on 17 July 2026) (ukas.com, checked 17 July 2026)
  • Bureau Veritas holds ISO/IEC 42001 accreditation via Italy's Accredia, not UKAS (Bureau Veritas Italy confirms it obtained ISO/IEC 42001 accreditation from Accredia, Italy's national accreditation body, following a field evaluation that included an audit at Fastweb; its UK certification services page does not list ISO 42001 among its offerings) (bureauveritas.it, checked 17 July 2026)
  • UK registration as an overseas-company branch (Registered at Companies House as a UK establishment of an overseas company: Bureau Veritas Certification Holding (UK establishment BR002542), opened 1 June 1994, address 100 Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6DL; parent Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS (company FC018071) is a French Société Anonyme whose last UK-filed accounts date to 2014) (Companies House, checked 17 July 2026)
  • Related UK operating entity scale (A separately registered related UK company, Bureau Veritas UK Limited (company 01758622), reported turnover of £93.67m and 858 employees for the year to 31 December 2023; Bureau Veritas's own UK site separately states 1,200 employees across the UK and Ireland) (bureauveritas.co.uk, checked 17 July 2026)
  • Parent Bureau Veritas Group global scale (Bureau Veritas Group reported revenue of €6,466.4 million (up 6.5% organically) and 82,049 employees worldwide for FY2025) (group.bureauveritas.com, checked 17 July 2026)
  • Pricing disclosure (No published rate card; the UK certification services page offers only a 'Get a free quote for certification services' contact form) (bureauveritas.co.uk, checked 17 July 2026)
  • Trustpilot presence is poor (1.7/5 ('Bad') from 24 reviews on the corporate bureauveritas.com Trustpilot profile, unclaimed, checked live on 17 July 2026; not a UK-certification-specific profile) (Trustpilot, checked 17 July 2026)
  • Trustpilot: Corporate profile (not UK-certification-specific) shows 1.7/5 ('Bad') from 24 reviews, unclaimed. (Trustpilot, checked 17 July 2026)

ISO 9001:2015 (QMS) ISO 14001:2015 (EMS) ISO 19443:2018 (Nuclear Supply Chain QMS) ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 (ITSMS) ISO 22000:2018 (FSMS) ISO 22301:2019 (BCMS) ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (ISMS) ISO/IEC 27701:2019 (PIMS sector scheme) ISO 45001:2018 (HSMS) ISO 50001:2018 (EnMS) ISO 55001:2014/2024 (AMS)

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