Recital 106

(106) Missing vehicles have been recognised as one of the major implementation challenges of Directive 2000/53/EC. The absence of an efficient system allowing for real time exchange of information between Member States on the registration status of vehicles hinders traceability and has been identified as a reason for the high number of ‘missing vehicles’ in the Union. To address this, the Commission proposed a revision of Council Directive 1999/37/EC (29) on the registration documents for vehicles. That revision should require Member States to record electronically, for vehicles registered on their territory, data allowing to properly document the reasons for the cancellation of a registration of a vehicle, especially if a vehicle has been treated as an end-of-life vehicle in an authorised treatment facility, re-registered in another Member State, exported to a third country outside the Union or stolen. Moreover, to prevent the illegal dismantling or export of vehicles that have been temporarily de-registered, the vehicle owners should be obliged to promptly report any changes in their ownership to the national vehicle registration authority. Those amendments complement and build on the existing requirements for Member States to electronically record data on all vehicles registered on their territory.

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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.