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The EC ELV Directive aims to reduce the amount of waste from vehicles (cars and vans) when they are finally scrapped. In particular, it includes tightened environmental standards for vehicle treatment sites, requires that last owners must be able to dispose of their vehicles free of charge from 2007 (and requires producers to pay all or a significant part of the free take-back from this date), sets rising reuse, recycling and recovery targets and restricts the use of hazardous substances in both new vehicles and replacement vehicle parts.
The UK has transposed the Directive through its ELV Regulations 2003 and 2005.
The 2003 Regulations put in place most of the requirements of the Directive, including the improved standards for vehicle treatment sites, some new technical standards that apply to new vehicles and the establishment of a Certificate of Destruction (CoD) system.
The remaining provisions were the subject of the 2005 Regulations that came into effect in March 2005. These regulations set out the requirements for vehicle producers to have available networks of facilities where last owners of their brands of vehicles may take them for treatment at the end of their lives. These facilities are required to provide this service free of charge from 1 January 2007 (where vehicles are largely complete and have not had extra waste added).
A public register showing whether vehicle producers have met their obligation to meet the 2006 re-use, recovery and recycling target of at least 85% for vehicles of their brands.
A short note of the Technical Adaptation Committee meeting held in Brussels on 7 March 2008
The following documents will allow you to find out more about the ELV Directive and the UK's own transposing regulations:
The End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003
ELV (Producer Responsibility) Regulations 2005
Explanatory Memoranda are submitted to Parliament to explain the content and implications of all new policy proposals. This EM provides further background for interested stakeholders and is part of the Government's response to the Better Regulations Task Force Report "Environmental Legislation - Getting the Message Across".
Explanatory Memorandum (EM) on amended proposal for ELV Directive (April 2000) Depolluting end-of-life vehicles: guidance for authorised treatment facilitiesPart I provides mass balance data on ELV arisings and processing during 2000.
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/topics/elvehicles/trlstudy-one.pdf
Part II attempts to identify the data that will be required to monitor compliance with the ELV Directive.
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/topics/elvehicles/trlstudy-two.pdf
Shredder Trial study on metal content of UK ELVs Report on BERR funded trial to establish the average metal content of ELVs arising in the UK.
A study to determine the metallic fraction recovered from the end of life vehicles in the UKPeter Cottrell, Sustainable Development & Regulation Directorate, Dept.of Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR), 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET
Tel: 020 7215 1330
Email: peter.cottrell@berr.gsi.gov.uk
(The Department of Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform is not responsible for the accuracy of the content of these links)
Defra – ELV webpage
Defra – Waste permitting review webpage
European Commission - Waste & the Environment web-site
European Commission – End-of-life vehicles webpage
Environment Agency – NetRegs (Advice for business on dealing with environmental regulations)
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