COC
Published 4 November 2026, 00:38
Certificate of Conformity
A certificate confirming that a car meets the manufacturer's and European requirements. When you bring a car into Portugal, it is often needed to confirm the technical specifications and makes homologação simpler. For the owner it is one of the documents that affect how much registration costs and how many steps it involves.
Where you come across it. bringing a car into Portugal and registering it.
This is not a Portuguese abbreviation. If you have no COC, a separate homologação is sometimes required.