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The Practical Implementation of Directive 2000/53/EC in EU Member States

The Practical Implementation of Directive 2000/53/EC in EU Member States. Based on the Report for the European Parliament on the End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive - Assessment of the current state of implementation by Member States, IEEP’s March ’07 manuscript.

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The Practical Implementation of Directive 2000/53/EC in EU Member States

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  1. The Practical Implementation of Directive 2000/53/EC in EU Member States Based on the Report for the European Parliament on the End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive - Assessment of the current state of implementation by Member States, IEEP’s March ’07 manuscript Ross Bartley, Environmental & Technical Officer, European Ferrous Recovery & Recycling Federation’s European Shredder Group

  2. Austria Belgium Ireland Czech Republic Hungary Germany Italy UK Malta The Netherlands Sweden EU Member States covered in report

  3. Focus on:- Transposition of the Directive (by 21 April ‘02 or by Accession 1 May ‘04) Free Take Back (for all ELVs from 1 Jan ’07) Recycling Target Achievements (by 1 Jan ’06) Reuse and Recycling ≥ 80 wt.% Reuse and Recovery ≥ 85 wt.% Recall the Directives slow progress in both Parliament and Council, why?  More stringent arrangements for the take back  Producers made responsible for the cost of take back result  strong opposition by the carmakers

  4. …analysis… Recyclers Citizen Govt ESG

  5. …analysis… Recyclers Citizen Govt ESG

  6. …analysis… Recyclers Citizen Govt ESG

  7. …analysis… Recyclers Citizen Govt ESG

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  9. …analysis… Recyclers Citizen Govt ESG

  10. …analysis… Recyclers Citizen Govt ESG

  11. General Implementation of the Directive • Pioneer states: Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, but  significant difficulties, delays and setbacks in implementing in many countries, reasons  • Waste disposal arrangements vary significantly from one state to another • The Directive did not specify how the disposal of cars would be funded during the transition period of 2002-2007 • The requirements have increased the cost of car disposal • Administrative arrangements too complex (national systems or standards versus responsibility of the Regions or municipal authorities) • Reporting, procedures difficult / complex • “Disposal of carmakers’ products is not their core business” • Countries from the EU-10: recent adoption of “acquis communautaire”  do not have a high level of administrative resource

  12. Free take back • Article 5  the last owner of the vehicle could return the vehicle to a treatment facility at no cost (for all cars from 1 January 2007) • Transporting a vehicle to a disposal site = cost for cars unable to be taken to the site on their own power = administrative charges = barrier to complete take-up • Density of the disposal network varies from country to country  different levels of ambition in different Member States (new networks being built up, new sites licensed) • ! Best practice: a clearinghouse organisation to handle the flow of payments and documentation (PRO) • ! Best practice: a central fund (charges on new cars and second hand cars – from producers and importers)

  13. Achievements of Recycling and Recovery Targets • No reliable reporting in many countries that implemented late (eg % of material being used or recovered)

  14. Cars and car scrappage • EU-15 high disposable income so more luxury cars • EU-10 older average age vehicles, significant legacy issues • In some countries  scrappage by unlicensed operators • Some cars still abandoned rather than scrapped • Second-hand trade causes some illegal activities export of wrecked or stolen cars • some end-of-life vehicles ‘garaged’ rather than scrapped • Export of second-hand cars before reaching end-of-life important and growing feature of the European car market What will the MEPs learn from this report? Will they consider changing the Directive?

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