Article 47

1. Member States shall, for the purpose of enforcing this Regulation, establish inspection strategies aimed at detecting illegal activities in the area of collection, and treatment and export of end-of-life vehicles and their parts and components. Those strategies shall provide for the inspections referred to in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4. 2. Member States shall, for the purpose of enforcing this Regulation, inspect: authorised treatment facilities; collection points; other facilities and economic operators which might be involved in the collection, treatment and export of end-of-life vehicles, or selling used spare parts and components. 3. The total number of operators listed in paragraph 2 that shall be subject to inspection each calendar year shall be calculated as being at least 10 % of the operators listed in paragraph 2, points (a) and (b). 4. Member States shall also carry out regular and risk-based inspections concerning export of used vehicles in order to verify compliance with Article 39. 5. In order to distinguish between used vehicles and end-of-life vehicles, competent authorities of Member States may inspect shipments of used vehicles suspected to be end-of-life vehicles on compliance with the requirements laid down in Article 36 and Annex I and monitor such shipments accordingly. 6. Where the competent authorities of a Member State establish that an intended shipment of a used vehicle involves one or more end-of-life vehicles, the costs of appropriate analyses, inspections and storage of the vehicles suspected to be end-of-life vehicles may be charged to the persons arranging the shipment of those vehicles.

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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.