Recital 67

(67) To ensure effective collection of end-of-life vehicles, explicit obligations should be addressed to vehicle owners. They should deliver their vehicle, when it reaches the end-of-life phase, to collection points or authorised treatment facilities. When vehicles are damaged and insurance companies are involved in declaring them a technical or economic total loss, the insurance company or any other automotive expert acting on its behalf should also assess whether or not the vehicle is an end-of-life vehicle in accordance with this Regulation. In the case of abandoned vehicles, the relevant authorities should set out rules for declaring a vehicle as an end-of-life vehicle and proceed in accordance with this Regulation. Abandoned vehicles could include, for example, vehicles left unattended or illegally on public property, or vehicles that have been parked on private property without the consent of the owner of the property, or vehicles that have not been reclaimed after a notification by competent authorities to the vehicle 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.