Waste Management (End of Life Vehicles) Regulations 2006

The Waste Management (End-of-Life Vehicles) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 282 of 2006) came into effect on the 8th June 2006.

The Regulations transpose the provisions of Council Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles, and facilitate the implementation of the provisions of the Directive in Ireland.

The 2006 Regulations place obligations on producers – vehicle manufacturers and importers – to establish national collection systems for the appropriate treatment and recovery of end-of-life vehicles.

Each producer’s national collection system is required to have at least one Authorised Treatment Facility in the functional area of each local authority in respect of end-of-life vehicles of that producer’s brand of for which that producer has responsibility.

An authorised treatment facility is a facility where the collection and storage and treatment of end-of-life vehicles may take place.

The producer must ensure that the Authorised Treatment Facility has sufficient capacity to treat the producer’s specified vehicles that are likely to become end-of-life vehicles in 2007 and in each year thereafter.

A facility should meet the particular standards set out in the Regulations in relation to site layout and the depollution operations to be performed on the site.

From 1st January 2007, owners of end-of-life vehicles can deposit them free of charge at appropriate authorised treatment facilities, provided the essential parts of the vehicle are not missing, and no waste has been added to the end-of-life vehicle.

Producers and Authorised Treatment Facilities are required to meet new recovery and recycling targets:

• 85% reuse/ recovery by average weight per vehicle deposited for appropriate treatment by 1 January 2006 (to include 80% materials recycling); and

• 95% reuse/ recovery by 1st January 2015 (to include 85% materials recycling).

Producers must register with each local authority and the pay applicable registration fee as set out in the Regulations.

An application for registration must include specified information including an implementation plan. Producers must submit an annual report to the local authority, and must keep and furnish detailed records, and provide technical documentation on request.

The Regulations place requirements on Producers to restrict the use of specified hazardous substances in the manufacture of vehicles, to use prescribed component and material coding standards, and to make available dismantling information for new vehicles within six months of their being placed in the market.

For further information please contact:
Anthony Layng at alayng@kilroys.ie

© Kilroys Solicitors August 2006