TheHelmholtzequationissometimessupplementedbyconditionsthatincludethespecificationoftheboundaryvalueofthepergenceoftheunknown.Inthispaper,westudythevectorHelmholtzproblemindomainsofbothC~(1,1)andLipschitz.Wees-tablisharigorousvariationalanalysissuchasequivalence,existenceanduniqueness.Andweproposefiniteelementapproximationsbasedontheuncoupledsolutions.Fi-nallywepresentaconvergenceanalysisanderrorestimates.