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Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
When your vehicle has reached the end of its usefulness, you must get it…
Find an authorised treatment facility (ATF) where your vehicle can be…
When you make an insurance claim because your vehicle is damaged, your…
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Tell DVLA if your vehicle has been damaged, written off and then scrapped by your insurance company
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Tell DVLA you've sold your vehicle or transferred it to a new registered keeper (owner), or that you've bought a vehicle
How councils and national park authorities should deal with the removal of abandoned vehicles from land in the open air and roads.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
What happens if you're stopped by the police while driving - breath tests, motoring offences, faults with your vehicle, seizing your vehicle
This service provides a Certificate of Destruction (CoD) and Notification of Destruction (NoD) for an authorised treatment facility (ATF).
How and when you can seize a vehicle to investigate a waste crime.
Tell the police and your insurance company if your vehicle has been stolen straight away - telling DVLA, vehicle tax refunds and personalised registration numbers
How to account for VAT on vehicles and fuel you use for your business.
Report a manufacturer or a dealer for making or selling new vehicles, vehicle parts and vehicle accessories with safety problems.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Your vehicle tax is cancelled and you get a refund for any full months of remaining tax when you tell DVLA you no longer have the vehicle or it's off the road
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.
Find out how much you have to pay and where you have to collect your vehicle from if it's been clamped or impounded
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