Recital 18

(18) One of the biggest practical challenges related to the application of Directive 2000/53/EC concerns the determination whether or not a vehicle has become an end-of-life vehicle, in particular in cases of transboundary shipments of vehicles. Despite the issuance of guidance on that issue, such assessment remains problematic. It is therefore necessary to provide legally binding precise criteria allowing to determine an end-of-life vehicle. Those criteria should be used by all relevant competent authorities, economic operators and vehicle owners dealing with end-of-life vehicles. It is however also necessary to provide for exemptions in order to preserve the possibility for Member States to determine situations in which individual vehicles should not fall under the scope of this Regulation due to their status as a vehicle of special cultural interest for as long as they maintain that status. In addition, competent authorities of a Member State should be able to exempt a vehicle from the status of end-of-life vehicle when the vehicle concerned is subject to repair, upon request from its owner.

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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.