Recital 21

(21) The automotive supply chain involves a large number of suppliers, including many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in different regions and with diverse organisational structures. While manufacturers should collect information throughout the supply chain on the materials used in vehicles and establish and implement procedures to verify the accuracy of such information, they should take into account the capacities of SMEs. SMEs often have limited administrative resources, fewer technical tools and, in some cases, no established systems to generate or verify detailed environmental or material-composition data. Those constraints can affect the availability and completeness of the information that SMEs are able to provide. Accordingly, when assessing manufacturers’ procedures for collecting and verifying supplier information, the specific situation of SMEs in the supply chain should be duly considered.

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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.