Recital 112

Regulation (EU) 2026/1738 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 July 2026 on circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles, amending Regulations (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2019/1020 and (EU) 2023/1542 and repealing Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

(112) This Regulation does not change the rules on restrictions on the use of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium in vehicles established under Directive 2000/53/EC or the exemptions from those restrictions. However, it lays down clearer rules on how compliance with those restrictions, as well as with other circularity requirements, are to be verified during the type-approval process. In order to ensure that manufacturers have sufficient time to comply with those rules, their application should be deferred. Therefore, provisions of Directive 2000/53/EC concerning restrictions on the use of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium should remain in force until the rules in this Regulation become applicable, in order to ensure continuity and to assure that vehicles placed on Union’s market do not contain such substances, in cases other than provided for in that Directive.

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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.