In this paper we study Coifman type estimates and weighted norm inequalities for singular integral operators T and its commutators, given by the convolution with a vector valued kernel K. We define a weaker Hörmander type condition associated with Young functions for the vector valued kernels. With this general framework we obtain as an example the result for the square operator and its commutator given in [ M. Lorente, M.S. Riveros, A. de la Torre On the Coifman type inequality for the oscillation of the one-sided averages ,(1.1) for some 0 < p < ∞ and some 0 ≤ w ∈ L 1 loc (R n ). The maximal operator M T is related to the operator T which is normally easier to deal with. In general, M T is strongly related to the kernel of T .The classical result of Coifman in [3] is, let T be a Calderón-Zygmund operator, then T is controlled by M, the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator. In other words, for all 0 < p < ∞ and w ∈ A ∞ ,Later in [16], Rubio de Francia, Ruiz and Torrea studied operators with less regularity in the kernel. They proved that for certain operators, (1.1) holds with M T = M r f = M(|f | r ) 1/r , for some 1 ≤ r < ∞. The value of the exponent r is determined by the smoothness of the kernel, namely, the kernel satisfies an L r ′ -Hörmander condition (see the precise definition below). In [14], Martell, Pérez and Trujillo-González proved that this control is sharp in the sense that one cannot write a pointwise smaller operator M s with s < r. This yields, that for operators satisfying only the classical Hörmander condition, H 1 , the inequality (1.1) does not hold for any M r , 1 ≤ r < ∞.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 42B20, 42B25.