Article 18

1. A producer, in the case of individual fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, and producer responsibility organisations appointed in the case of collective fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, shall apply for an authorisation from the competent authority. 2. The authorisation shall be granted only where it is demonstrated that the requirements laid down in Article 8a(3), points (a) to (d), of Directive 2008/98/EC are complied with and the measures put in place by the producer or producer responsibility organisation are sufficient to meet the obligations set out in this Chapter with regard to the number of vehicles made available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State by the producer or producers on whose behalf the producer responsibility organisation acts. Producers, in the case of individual fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, and producer responsibility organisations, in the case of collective fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, may only be registered if they hold an authorisation from the competent authority in accordance with this Article. This is without prejudice to the possibility of combining the registration procedure pursuant to Article 19 and the authorisation procedure pursuant to this Article into a single procedure. 3. Member States shall, in their measures laying down administrative and procedural rules referred to in Article 14(3), point (b), include the details of the authorisation procedure, which may differ according to whether it relates to individual or collective fulfilment of the extended producer responsibility obligations, and the modalities for verifying compliance of producers and producer responsibility organisations, including the information to be provided by producers or producers responsibility organisations to that end. 4. The producer or the producer responsibility organisation shall notify the competent authority without undue delay of any changes to the information contained in the authorisation, of any changes that concern the terms of the authorisation or of the permanent cessation of operations. 5. The self-control mechanism provided for in Article 8a(3), point (d), of Directive 2008/98/EC shall be carried out regularly, and at least every three years, and upon the request by the competent authority, in order to verify that the provisions in that point are complied with and the conditions for authorisation referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article continue to be met. The producer or the producer responsibility organisation shall, upon request, present a self-control report and, where necessary, the draft corrective action plan to the competent authority. Without prejudice to the competencies under paragraph 6 of this Article, the competent authority may make observations on the self-control report and on the draft corrective action plan, and shall communicate any such observations to the producer or the producer responsibility organisation. The producer or producer responsibility organisation shall draw up and implement the corrective action plan based on those observations. 6. The competent authority may decide to revoke the authorisation if the producer or producer responsibility organisation no longer fulfils the requirements with regard to the organisation of the collection and treatment of end-of-life, fails in relation to reporting to the competent authority, fails to notify the competent authority of any changes that concern the terms of the authorisation, or has ceased operations.

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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.