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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.
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…
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
How councils and national park authorities should deal with the removal of abandoned vehicles from land in the open air and roads.
CMA provisionally clears Copart’s completed purchase of Hills Motors following new evidence
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
The Submarine Dismantling Project (SDP) will deliver the Government’s commitment to provide a safe, environmentally responsible and cost-effective solution for dismantling 27 of the UK’s de-fuelled, nuclear powered submarines after they have left service with the Royal Navy.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Application form for dealers to deregister a vehicle.
These are the appropriate measures for ELV treatment at regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat ELVs.
The CMA has cleared the completed purchase of Hills Motors by Copart after an in-depth phase 2 investigation
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
Standard rules SR2015 No 13: 25kte vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
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