Recital 50

(50) Directive 2000/53/EC establishes a basic obligation for vehicle producers to cover part of the costs of collection of end-of-life vehicles. Building on this obligation, in line with the polluter-pays principle and consistent with the general minimum requirements for extended producer responsibility schemes set out in Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (14), it is appropriate to lay down at Union level requirements on the responsibilities of manufacturers relating to the management of end-of-life vehicles. Producers should have extended producer responsibility for the vehicles that they make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State once they reach their end-of-life phase. The extended producer responsibility should cover the obligations to ensure that the vehicles made available by the producers on the market in a Member State are collected and treated in accordance with this Regulation and that waste management operators treating such vehicles meet the recycling targets established by this Regulation.

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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.