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Wednesday, 08 November 2017

European Automobile Manufacturers Association Vision on Circular Economy

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY BRATISLAVA – 06/11/2017

Jens Warsen

Environmental Policy Director

ACEA MEMBERS

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from an Automotive perspective

KEY POINTS OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY CONCEPT

The Automotive Industry is committed to Circular Economy since many years

• Optimizing production processes and use phase of vehicles – life-cycle
• Keeping products in the life-cycle – waste prevention
• Longevity and repairability of products
• Remanufacturing, reusability (e.g. large and complex parts like engines & gear-boxes)
• Supporting re-use and recycling
• Improving quality of recyclates by complying with REACH legislation
• High recycling quota on product level (85%)
• No more abandoned End of Life Vehicles (ELV)

RECYCLING OF WASTE STREAMS

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• „Simple“ product
• Few different materials
• Short span of life - only one “owner”
• Recycling Quota ~ 55%
• One of the most „complex“ consumer products
• Very many different materials
• Long life span - several different owners
• Recycling Quota ~ 85%

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EUROPEAN WASTE REGULATION

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Sector Specific Regulation

Directive on Waste Recycling Strategy Resource Strategy

ELV- Directive WEEE- Directive Battery- Directive Horizontal legislation affecting ELV

Landfill- Directive Thermal Treatment

• f Waste

Shipment

• f Waste

Waste Oil Directive POP regulation

ELV = End-of-Life Vehicles WEEE = Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment POP = Persistent Organic Pollutant

ELV DIRECTIVE -FITNESS CHECK 2014

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Findings of the fitness-check

• ELV Directive has proven to be effective and provides a significant contribution to

environmental protection

• Good progress towards achieving the objectives and targets have been confirmed
• Concluded that ELV directive remains up-to date with current needs
• Broad coherence with other EU waste legislations was identified with some room for

formal alignment with Waste-Framework-Directive (WFD)

• Lack of reliability and comparability of statistics (Member-States) + formal

alignment with WFD

ELV-DIRECTIVE -SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

Shared responsibilities

• f all economic operators

Manufacturers and Importers

• Take back network
• Substance restrictions

requirements

• Dismantling information
• Design for sustainability
• Confirmation of recyclability/

recoverability

Last owner

• Deliver ELV at

take back site

• Vehicle is

complete and free of waste

Treatment Operators

• Take back ELVs
• Environmentally

sound treatment

• Achievement and

monitoring of the recycling- and recovery quotas

Government/ Authorities

• Licence shredder

and dismantlers

• Enforce standards

for ELV treatment

• Install registration-

and deregistration system

• prevent illegality

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COD –KEY FOR SUCCESS

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CoD*

Vehicle owner

• tax/insurance

for registered vehicle until deregistration via direct debit authorisation from bank account (high penalties, if tax not paid)

Deregistration only with sales contract or CoD No other documents allowed (CoA**, NoD***)

Temporary deregistration

(max. 1 year, no automatic deletion of vehicles from register)

Sales contract

Sale

Final Deregistration at certified treatment facility Issuing a CoD = classification as ELV Raise customer awareness regarding importance of CoD as basis for deregistration

(* Certificate of Destruction ** Certificate of Acceptance, *** Notification of Destruction)

REMAINING CHALLENGES

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• Increasing number of substance-regulations: ELV, POPs Regulation / Stockholm

Convention, REACH…

• More stringent thresholds for substances in recycled materials (POP regulation,

REACH)

• Potential contradiction with existing recycling targets (e.g. ELV Directive) and the

strategic targets of the Circular Economy activities

• Overlapping regulations: complete vehicles vs components (e.g. EU ELV and Battery

Directive)

• Recognizing recycling as a tool: minimum recycled material targets for a material or

product are not appropriate

• Lack of global alignment (China, EU, Canada, Korea, Taiwan ROHS; China, Korea, EU

ELV…)

CONCLUSION

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• Existing EU legislation provides a framework that already has the potential to

foster a circular economy

• ELV-Directive has proven highly effective in preventing waste disposal,

increasing re-use, recycling and recovery, as well as ensuring treatment of ELVs in an environmental sound way

• However, further improvement is needed for
• Enforcement of existing legislation in all MS in order to create a level

playing field in the ELV recycling business

• Mandatory Registration/De-registration system with compulsory CoD in
• rder to demonstrate proper ELV treatment and support monitoring
• Avoidance of contradicting targets from overlapping legislation
• The automotive industry is committed to implement the right measures at

hand and to apply these on base of a free adaption within the legal framework

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