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22.6.2 Environmental Benefits Associated with Recycling
The Regulations introduce new environmental standards to ensure that as much
material as possible is re-used, recovered and in particular recycled from an ELV and
that this process is carried out in a way that does not harm the environment. Under
the Regulations, producers and ATFs are required to meet new recovery and recycling
targets for ELVs of:
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� 85% reuse / recovery by average weight per vehicle deposited for appropriate
treatment by 1 st January 2006 (to include 80% materials recycling); and
� 95% reuse / recovery by 1 st January 2015 (to include 85% materials recycling).
The Regulations identify treatment operations for the depollution of ELVs and further
affirm that the removal of any article or material from a vehicle, shall be carried out in
such manner so as to best promote it’s recycling. The provisions relating to designing
for recycling in Part IV of the Regulations will encourage the motor manufacturing
industry to produce more recyclable parts, design for reuse and adopt more
environmental friendly practices in the use of materials. The ambitious reuse,
recovery and recycling targets that Ireland is now required to achieve in respect of
ELVs, will have a consequential result in that significant volumes of automotive
shredder residues (ASR) will be diverted from landfill. The Directive will facilitate the
environmental management of 100,000 ELVs which arise annually in Ireland. 482
22.7 Implementation Costs
The introduction of the ELV Directive in Ireland has cost implications for both industry
and State bodies involved, in particular local authorities.
Local authorities will have responsibility under the Regulations for administering and
enforcing the scheme in their functional areas. This will impose significant costs. As
this is a producer responsibility initiative based on the polluter pays principle, the
Regulations provide for a fee-based registration system which will go towards meeting
local authority costs in administering and enforcing the Regulations in their functional
areas. In making an application for registration to each local authority, producers
must pay the following registration fees to each local authority:
� €1,000 for producers whose annual turnover was less than or equal to
€50,000,000;
� €2,500 in respect of producers whose annual turnover was greater than
€50,000,000 but less than or equal to €100,000,000; and
� €6,000 in respect of producers whose annual turnover was greater than
€100,000,000.
The registration fee system will have cost implications for industry estimated at
€3.4m on an annual basis, but will result in cost recovery for local authorities for
482 Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government (May 2006) Statement on
Regulatory Impact – Waste Management (End of Life Vehicles) Regulations 2006.
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