Article 16

1. From 1 September 2029, producers shall have extended producer responsibility for vehicles that they make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, including where the vehicle has previously been made available on the market in a Member State other than the Member State within whose territory the vehicle is made available. The extended producer responsibility scheme shall be consistent with Articles 8 and 8a of Directive 2008/98/EC and shall comply with the requirements of this Chapter. 2. The extended producer responsibility shall include the obligation for producers to ensure that: vehicles which they have made available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State and which become end-of-life vehicles are: collected in accordance with Article 23; treated in accordance with Article 26; the waste management operators treating end-of-life vehicles referred to in point (a) meet the targets laid down in Article 33. 3. In the outermost regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU, Member States may adapt the producers’ obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article in order to cover the costs of managing end-of-life vehicles and taking into account the characteristics of those regions. 4. In addition to the information referred to in Article 8a(3), point (e), of Directive 2008/98/EC, producers, in the case of individual fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, or producer responsibility organisations appointed in the case of collective fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, shall publish on their websites once a year, subject to commercial and industrial confidentiality, the information on the collection of end-of-life vehicles and the achievement of targets on reuse and recycling, reuse and recovery and plastic recycling by themselves in the case of individual fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, or by the producers which appointed that producer responsibility organisation in the case of collective fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations.

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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.