On 6th August 2019 The European Commission launched an online public consultation: End-of-life-vehicles – evaluating the EU rules (see previous article in ATF Pro), which was held open for contributions until 29 October 2019.
A wide consultation exercise that has included inter alia targeted consultations and interviews was undertaken to assess the performance and suitability of the ELV Directive.
The purpose was to gather views and information to support the evaluation of the ELV Directive and to follow, a workshop shall be held for the various ELV stakeholder groups taking place in Brussels on 5th February 2020.
What is the Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles?
Every year, millions of vehicles in Europe reach the end of their life. If end-of-life vehicles (ELV) are not managed properly, they can be a threat to the environment as well as a lost source of millions of tonnes of materials. Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles (ELV Directive) was adopted in 2000 to minimise the impact of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) on the environment and to improve the environmental performance of all the economic operators involved in the life cycle of vehicles.
Why did the Commission perform a consultation?
Directive 2018/849/EU obliges the Commission to evaluate it by the end of 2020. Special attention is to be given to its implementation, to the feasibility of setting targets for reporting per specific materials, and to the problem of the end-of-life vehicles of unknown whereabouts.
Responding to the consultation
The Commission has a legal obligation to: “review the ELV Directive, by 31 December 2020, and to this end, shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal”. Moreover, the ELV Directive “should be reviewed and, if necessary, amended, taking account of (its) implementation and giving consideration, inter alia, to the feasibility of setting targets for specific materials contained in the relevant waste streams. During the review of Directive 2000/53/EC, attention should also be paid to the problem of end-of-life vehicles that are not accounted for, including the shipment of used vehicles suspected to be end-of-life vehicles, and to the application of the Correspondents’ Guidelines No 9 on shipments of waste vehicles”. In accordance with the Better Regulation Guidelines, an evaluation is the first step in this process.
The Commission is currently carrying out an evaluation of the ELV Directive to identify good and bad practices in its implementation and assess whether it has met its objectives using the criteria of: (i) effectiveness, (ii) efficiency, (iii) coherence, (iv) relevance and (v) EU added value. The roadmap of this evaluation was published on 4 October 2018 and feedback on this roadmap was expected until 1 November 2018.
More information can be found at www.elv-evaluation.eu
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