Directive 2000/53/EU on

End-of-life vehicles (ELV)

e-call Implementation Platform

Brussels, 25 November 2019
 Objectives
•
• Minimising the environmental impact of ELVs

 Reduce the final disposal

 Improve environmental performance of economic operators

• Ensuring proper functioning of the internal market and avoid

distortions of competition
 Scope
• Vehicles category M1 and N1
• M1: Vehicles used for the carriage of passengers and
comprising no more than eight seats in addition to the
driver's seat
• N1: Vehicles used for the carriage of goods and having a
maximum mass not exceeding 3,5 tonnes.
• If these conditions are met: motor caravans are included

• Three wheel motor vehicles

• Only the collection requirements and the treatment
rules apply

• Special purpose vehicles and motor tricycles are excluded from

the reuse/recovery/recycling targets
 Prevention
• Limit the use of hazardous substances in vehicles

• Design new vehicles taking into account dismantling, reuse and

recycling

• Develop market for recycled materials in vehicles

• Substance ban
 Pb, Hg, Cd, CrVI
 Materials and components of vehicles (also spare parts)
 Applies since 1 July 2003
 List of exemptions in Annex II
 Annex II to be revised by the Commission on a regular
basis according to technical and scientific progress
 Collection
• Economic operators to set up collection systems

• Member States to guarantee adequate availability of collection

facilities

• End-user needs certificate of destruction (CoD) for the

deregistration of ELV

• Producer's responsibility
Producer's Responsibility
Design responsibility
• Producers to limit the use of hazardous substances in vehicle
production (Annex II to the ELV Directive)
• Producers to design more recyclable vehicles (in order to reach
the ELV targets)
• Standards for dismantling, recoverability and recyclability in
the type-approval directive (EU Directive 2005/64/EC)
• Producers to integrate more recycled materials in new vehicles
Organisational responsibility
• Economic operators to set up collection
systems and achieve reuse, recovery and recycling
Financial responsibility (free take back)
Information responsibility (coding standards)
Achievements of the ELV Directive
• Contributed to making the car manufacturing in the EU a more efficient,
innovative and more sustainable industry

• No more abandoned ELVs, increase in the number of ELVs treated in Authorised

Treatment Facilities (ATFs); increase in the number of ATFs and ATFs with
environmental standards

• Design of new vehicles for disassembly and design for reuse and reduction of
hazardous substances

• Improved information for dismantling and parts (IDIS)

• New Technologies for the treatment of ELVs (e.g. post-shredding) and specific
environmental and health improvements (waste oils and fluids, tires etc.)

• Proper treatment of recycling/recovery of not only materials with a positive value

• Reduction of hazardous substances largely achieved

HOWEVER….
Challenges and Opportunities
• Systemic problem with statistically missing ELVs: 4.6 Mio in 2014!

 inadequate link between registration and de-registration or re-registration

 only a part of deregistered ELVs receive a certificate of destruction (CoD)

• Lack of good quality data, also reporting by MS

• Recycling infrastructure effectiveness

• Design: design for assembly, for manufacture, for recycling/reuse, for

environment, for life-cycle (e.g. life-cycle engineering), for quality, for
maintainability, for reliability

• Innovations are expected, (e.g. concerning material, material separation

enhancement, thermo-chemical conversion (gasification and pyrolysis) and
recycling/recovery routes of the residue)
Commission's initiatives
• Waste Shipment’s Correspondents Guidelines for Waste Vehicles No 9

• Reviewed WSR: Inspection Plans required by 2017

• ESTAT Guidelines on Reporting (revised) require also reporting of

registered and de-registered vehicles in addition to number of CoDs

• Best Environmental Management Practice for the Car Manufacturing

Sector

• Commission's compliance promotion initiative on the implementation

of the ELV Directive with emphasis on the ELVs of unknown
whereabouts

• European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy and interface

between chemical, product and waste legislation
Legislative changes affecting the
ELV legislation
• Waste package - Adopted in May 2018
 Proposal for a Review of the ELV Directive by 31 December
2020
 Proposal for a Review of the Batteries and the WEEE
Directives

• Revision of COM DEC 2005/293 on reporting on ELV targets

(after the review of the ELV Directive)

• Evaluations of the Regulation on Shipments of Waste and

the Batteries Directive
Timetable for the evaluation
(approximatively)
• Roadmap for the evaluation has been published on 4 October
2019 with deadline for contributions 1 November 2018

• 30 replies-feedback to the ELV Roadmap

• Evaluation started in March 2019 – duration 12 months

• Public stakeholders’ consultation 6 August – 29 October 2019

• Stakeholder workshop – aiming for 7 February 2020

• Publication of the evaluation report by the Commission (6 months

after the end of the evaluation)
 Main issues flagged in the input to
the Roadmap
• better implementation, improved inspections of ATFs, CoDs to be
issued by ATFs and not collection points;
• reduce/eliminate illegal activities and actors to address the missing
vehicles, work on better criteria to distinguish used cars and ELVs,
introduce incentives to last owners, fortify registration systems in MS;
• harmonization of definitions (ELV and WFD to address backfilling,
consistency with other legislation (Batteries and WEEE);
• design cars in sustainable way;
• improve IDIS;
• better reporting, introduce reporting per material, better data on
exports;
• apply EPR for recycling costs;
• POPs and REACH : burden on recycling industry;
• mandatory dismantling of parts vs shredding (including electronics).
New challenges
• Electric Vehicles
 Second life for Batteries from EVs – EPR questions
 Dismantling/repair – information to dismantlers

• Improvement of information in IDIS (ex. POPs in vehicles)

• A number of 27 raw materials identified as critical by the EU

(COM(2017)490) are to be found in vehicles, in particular EVs,
and their expected growth will significantly affect the issue

• Revision of Commission Decision 2005/293 on monitoring of the

ELV targets
 Annual data to be accompanied by quality report?
 Reporting per material?
 Reporting per vehicle stock?
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• For more information please visit:

• http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/elv_index.htm

• https://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/elv/evaluation_en.htm

• http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/waste/key_waste_streams/end_of_life_vehicles
_elvs

• http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/activities/emas/car.html

• Thank you for your attention!

• For further information, please contact: Artemis.Hatzi@ec.europa.eu