Article 20

1. The financial contributions paid by the producer shall cover the following costs related to the vehicles that the producer makes available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State: the costs of the collection of end-of-life vehicles that are necessary to meet the requirements in Articles 23 to 25 and of their subsequent transport in an efficient manner and the costs of the treatment of end-of-life vehicles that are necessary to meet the requirements in Articles 26 to 30, 33 and 35, taking into account the revenues of waste management operators linked to the sales of used spare parts and used spare components, of depolluted end-of-life vehicles, or of secondary raw materials recovered from such parts, components and materials; those costs shall be based on an average cost calculation; the costs of conducting awareness raising campaigns aimed to inform the public and to improve collection of end-of-life vehicles; the costs of establishing the notification system referred to in Article 25; the administrative costs of gathering and making data available and reporting to the competent authorities. For vehicles falling within the scope of Directive 2000/53/EC that have been made available on the market before 13 August 2026, and by way of derogation from the first subparagraph, point (a), and paragraph 2 of this Article, in Member States where, in accordance with Article 5(4), second subparagraph, of Directive 2000/53/EC, the producers did not have to meet all but only a significant part of the costs, the financial contributions that the producer of those vehicles has to make shall correspond to a level constituting a significant part of the costs referred to therein. 2. The financial contributions paid by the producers which make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State the vehicle shall also cover costs referred to in paragraph 1, point (a), related to vehicles for which the producer cannot be identified or ceased to exist in the Member State where the vehicle became an end-of-life vehicle, in proportion to their respective share of the market. 3. The financial contributions paid by the producers making available on the market special purpose vehicles shall cover only the costs referred to in paragraph 1, point (a), that concern collection and depollution of such vehicles. 4. In the case of individual fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations, the producers shall provide a guarantee for vehicles that they make available on the market for the first time in the territory of a Member State. That guarantee shall ensure that the operations referred to in paragraph 1 relating to those vehicles will be financed, including in the event of permanent cessation of their operations or insolvency. The amount of the guarantee shall be determined by the Member States in which the vehicle has been made available on the market for the first time taking into account criteria laid down in Article 21. The guarantee may take the form of participation by the producer in appropriate schemes for the financing of the management of end-of-life vehicles, a financial guarantee or equivalent insurance. 5. When a new vehicle has been type-approved in a multi-stage type-approval, the producer of the base vehicle shall be considered to be the producer of the completed vehicle and may collect pro rata contributions from the manufacturers of the parts, other than the base vehicle, that have been type approved in the multi-stage type-approval. Those pro rata contributions shall only cover costs in relation to depollution in accordance with Article 28 and removal of parts and components in accordance with Article 29. Microenterprises, as defined in Article 2(3) of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC (39), shall be exempted from such contributions. 6. The competent authority shall, in close cooperation with producers, producer responsibility organisations and waste management operators, monitor: the average costs of collection, recycling and treatment operations and the revenues of waste management operators; the level of financial contributions to be paid by the producers to the producer responsibility organisations appointed in the case of collective fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations so that the costs are fairly allocated between all interested operators.

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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.