Article 15

Regulation (EU) 2026/1738 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 July 2026 on circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles, amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2019/1020 and (EU) 2023/1542 and repealing Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

1. Without prejudice to Directive 2010/75/EU, any establishment or undertaking that intends to carry out treatment operations on end-of-life vehicles shall obtain a permit from the competent authority in accordance with Article 23 of Directive 2008/98/EC and shall comply with the conditions laid down in that permit. 2. In order to issue a permit referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the competent authority shall verify whether the establishment or the undertaking has the capacity that is necessary to comply with the obligations set out in Article 26. 3. Permits referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate that the treatment facilities have the competence to issue a certificate of destruction, as referred to in Article 25. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States may provide under their national legal frameworks that authorised treatment facilities are competent to issue the certificate of destruction referred to in Article 25. 4. Producers or, where appointed under Article 17(1), producer responsibility organisations may conclude contracts with authorised treatment facilities for the purpose of fulfilling their producer responsibility obligations. Such contracts shall be fair and transparent and shall not contain discriminatory terms or conditions. Member States may provide a model contract to facilitate compliance with this Article. 5. Member States shall ensure that the conditions and the procedures for the granting of the permit are fully coordinated where more than one competent authority or more than one establishment or undertaking intending to carry out treatment operations on end-of-life vehicles is involved in those permit procedures, in order to guarantee an effective integrated approach by all the competent authorities. 6. The Commission is empowered to adopt an implementing act laying down detailed requirements applicable to the contracts referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, with a view to ensuring fair, transparent and non-discriminatory terms and conditions. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 52(2).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.