Euro NCAP
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Key facts
- Company type
- Voluntary non-profit
- Industry
- Automotive safety
- Founded
- December 1996
- Headquarters
- Leuven , Belgium
- Number of locations
- 8 facilities
- Area served
- Europe
- Services
- Consumer information
- Website
- euroncap .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- international organization
- Field of work
- automobile safety
- Country
- Belgium
- Headquarters
- Brussels
- Official website
- www.euroncap.com
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- Commons category
- Euro NCAP
- inception
- 1997-00-00
- operating area
- Europe
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Encyclopedic overview
The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) is a European voluntary car safety performance assessment programme (i.e. a New Car Assessment Program) based in Leuven, Belgium. Formed in 1996, the first results were released in February 1997. It was originally started by the Transport Research Laboratory for the UK Department for Transport but later backed by several European governments, as well as by the European Union (EU). Their slogan is "For Safer Cars".
History and activities
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Euro NCAP” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.