Bureau Veritas (Certification agency, France)

Last modified: 2011-07-16 by ivan sache
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Bureau Veritas certification flag - Image by António Martins, 1 May 2009

• Presentation of Bureau Veritas
• ISO 9001 Certification flag
• Logo of Bureau Veritas

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• France

Presentation of Bureau Veritas

Bureau Veritas was created in 1828 (in 1892 changed to the current name) as a Belgian civil sea shiping classification society. It is currently an international certification agency seated in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France.

António Martins, 1 May 2009

ISO 9001 Certification flag

One of the international norms that this company issues certification for is ISO 9001 (quality management systems) and certificatied entities use i.a. a flag to make public that they are ISO 9001 compliant.
This flag is with apparent proportions 2:3, horizontally divided white-red-white (approx. 3:7:3); on the fly side, over all, the company logo in black and white, and the white lettering "ISO 9001 BUREAU VERITAS Certification" in three lines, set in a sans-serif face, on the red area by the hoist.
It is safe to speculate that conformity with other such standards (namely ISO 14001) as certified by this company is signaled by similar flags with other color replacing red.

Jan Mertens, 1 May 2009

Logo of Bureau Veritas

The logo of Bureau Veritas is presented on the company's website as follows:

Bureau Veritas was established in 1828 "to seek out the truth and tell it without fear or favor". The allegorical figure of Truth, represented by a woman emerging from a well, was chosen as the logo. The Bureau Veritas emblem shows a young woman seated on the edge of a well with her arms raised. In her right hand is a torch, in her left a mirror. Her left foot rests on a globe.
On the ground are a pair of scales, Mercury's wand (a caduceus), and a rooster with its eyes raised towards the woman. The horizon shows a three-masted vessel, sails billowing, passing across a bay. The new logo, redrawn in 1990 in a pure heraldic style, adheres to the same symbolism.

Ivan Sache, 8 September 2009