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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.

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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.