Chery International UK partners with CoCDesk to automate electronic Certificate of Conformity submission in the UK
London, United Kingdom, 29 September 2026
Chery International UK, Chery's UK subsidiary for passenger vehicles, has partnered with CoCDesk to put in place a fully automated system for submitting electronic Certificates of Conformity (eCoCs) in the United Kingdom.
Under the partnership, CoCDesk will generate, validate, digitally sign and submit eCoCs on Chery International UK's behalf, sending them to the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) through its portal and its system-to-system API. This takes manual XML preparation out of the vehicle registration process as the UK moves from paper Certificates of Conformity to structured electronic data.
Why has Chery chosen CoCDesk
From 29 November 2026, manufacturers must make the Certificate of Conformity for newly manufactured M, N and O category vehicles available to the VCA as structured electronic data. The VCA's eCoC portal and API went live on 17 June 2026, and every submission must be a valid, digitally signed UK IVI 2.0 XML file. Unsigned or incorrectly filled out files are rejected at upload.
For a fast-growing OEM registering vehicles at volume, preparing that XML by hand does not scale. Each file covers one vehicle and has to be signed and validated on its own. Automation is the only workflow that holds up once production throughput kicks in.
What CoCDesk delivers for Chery International UK
- Direct integration with MES to automate the flow of manufacturing data.
- Automated UK IVI 2.0 XML generation from vehicle data, with the correct GB and UK(NI) approval authority codes.
- Digital signing built in. eIDAS-compliant XAdES signatures are applied as part of the flow, with no separate signing tool.
- Validation before submission. Files are checked against the UK IVI schema so errors are caught and fixed before anything reaches the VCA.
- Direct submission to the VCA through both the portal and the system-to-system API, individually or in batches.
- A full audit trail for every certificate, ready for Conformity of Production checks.
- Bulk processing built for high-volume registration, with status tracking from start to finish.
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Chery International UK chose CoCDesk after reviewing its options for meeting the VCA's eCoC requirements. The decision came down to a preference for a purpose-built system that gets the details right: accurate files at the point of submission, resilience under volume, and a clear audit trail while the new UK regime beds in.
As we scale Chery International in the UK, getting eCoC submission right from day one is essential. CoCDesk gives us an automated, signed and validated route to the VCA that we can trust at volume.
Farrell Hsu
Managing Director, Chery UK
We're proud to support Chery International UK. Our job is simple: automating a previously manual process for submission of government mandated forms in the automotive industry. We turn their vehicle data into an eCoC the day it's needed, with no manual XML filling, no rejections and no surprises.
Aleksander Napieraj
CEO, CoCDesk
About Chery International UK
Chery International UK is responsible for bringing Chery brands to market in the United Kingdom, with a growing range of vehicles and a UK dealer network. In the year to August 2026, Chery Group delivered 91,542 vehicles in the UK, up 323.92% year on year, ranking second across the entire UK market.
About CoCDesk
CoCDesk is an eCoC document management platform that generates, digitally signs, validates and submits electronic Certificates of Conformity for vehicle manufacturers, both to the UK's VCA and to every EU National Access Point. CoCDesk is a product of Barnab Limited. Learn more at cocdesk.com.
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