# Bureau Veritas - **Type:** Certification body - **Website:** https://www.bureauveritas.co.uk - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) 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. ## Bureau Veritas scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### 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 Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - UKAS accreditation does not currently cover ISO/IEC 42001 (AIMS) - Source: https://www.ukas.com/wp-content/uploads/schedule_uploads/00011/04947/0008Management-Systems.pdf - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Bureau Veritas holds ISO/IEC 42001 accreditation via Italy's Accredia, not UKAS - Source: https://www.bureauveritas.it/newsroom/bureau-veritas-intelligenza-artificiale-vincente-ma-solo-con-affidabilita-governance-e - Checked: 2026-07-17 - UK registration as an overseas-company branch - Source: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/BR002542 - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Related UK operating entity scale - Source: https://www.bureauveritas.co.uk/who-we-are/bureau-veritas-uk - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Parent Bureau Veritas Group global scale - Source: https://group.bureauveritas.com/investors/our-profile/key-figures - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Pricing disclosure - Source: https://www.bureauveritas.co.uk/certification-services - Checked: 2026-07-17 - Trustpilot presence is poor - Source: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bureauveritas.com - Checked: 2026-07-17 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Not published - Indemnity cover: Not published - Credentials: Not published - Independent accreditation: Published - Client results: Not published - How it uses AI: Not published ## 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 Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - Not UKAS-accredited for ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management systems); Bureau Veritas holds this accreditation only via Italy's Accredia - Basis: 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) - Basis: 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 - Basis: 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 - Basis: 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 ## Where this firm appears - [Do you need a data protection officer?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/first-appointment) - [Can the firm that prepares you also certify you?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/certification-seeking) - [How do you change your data protection provider?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/switching-provider) - [Your sector adds its own rules to UK data protection law](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/sector-regulated) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.