Article 24

1. A vehicle owner, and any economic operator acting on behalf of the vehicle owner, of a vehicle that becomes an end-of-life vehicle shall deliver it to an authorised treatment facility or to a collection point without undue delay. That obligation shall not apply to motor caravans, as referred to in Part A, point 5.1, of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/858, that have become end-of-life vehicles as long as those vehicles are used for housing purposes. All end-of-life vehicles for which no owner can be identified shall be delivered for treatment to authorised treatment facilities. 2. Delivery of an end-of-life vehicle to an authorised treatment facility or a collection point shall be free of charge for the last owner of a vehicle unless the end-of-life vehicle lacks any of the essential vehicle parts or components or contains waste which has been added to the end-of-life vehicle. 3. Essential parts for the purposes of this Article are in particular: e-drive motors; electric vehicle batteries; engines; multiple large pieces of bodywork. 4. Where the electric vehicle battery is missing from an end-of-life vehicle, the delivery of the end-of-life vehicle shall remain free of charge if the last owner of the vehicle provides documentation which proves that the electric vehicle battery has been handled by a professional operator in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. 5. In the case of vehicles that have been declared as technical total losses by insurance companies, delivery of such end-of-life vehicles shall be free of charge notwithstanding that the essential parts set out in paragraph 2 are missing.

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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.