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How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Understand the European Community (EC) Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of life vehicles.
The government's summary of EU legislation about end-of-life vehicles and type approval with respect to their reusability, recyclability and recoverability.
Provides technical advice to authorised treatment facilities on how to depollute passenger cars and light goods vehicles in accordance with …
The T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to store and treat ELVs or components. Exempt facilities which store or treat ELVs or components may find this guidance useful. Where the...
Consultation on draft new guidance explaining the appropriate measures for permitted facilities that store and treat end of life vehicles (ELVs) or components.
This study considers the potential environmental impacts associated with implementing the 2015 targets for recycling.
The CMA is investigating suspected anti-competitive conduct in relation to the recycling of old or written-off vehicles, specifically cars and vans, also known as ‘end-of-life vehicles’ or ELVs.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
These are the appropriate measures for ELV storage at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat ELVs.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
These are the appropriate measures for ELV treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat ELVs.
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