Recital 8

(8) In order to improve the functioning of the single market, while ensuring a high level of protection of the environment, it is essential to harmonise the conditions for the type-approval of vehicles when it comes to their reusability, recyclability and recoverability, the production stage of vehicles, the assessment of the status of the vehicle and the export of used vehicles. In order to contribute to the objectives of preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment, protecting human health, and the prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, it is essential to lay down rules regarding the management of end-of-life vehicles, taking into account the design of the vehicle, as well as measures aiming to prevent illegal dismantling such as better traceability in the case of transfer of ownership of used vehicles. The most efficient way of facilitating the transition of the automotive sector to a circular economy is therefore to establish a uniform regulatory framework at Union level, covering in an integrated and consistent manner the design, manufacturing, placement on the market in the Union and end-of-life treatment of vehicles. This is also essential for the development of the Union market for secondary raw materials which are included in new vehicles placed on the market, as well as to avoid barriers to trade and distortions of competition, ensure legal clarity and improve the environmental performances of all of the economic operators involved in the design, production and end-of-life treatment of vehicles. In order to achieve those objectives, Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC should be replaced by a Regulation, based on Article 114 and Article 192(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

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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.