Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 86: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the exact transposition dates for the six directives in his Department's area of responsibility which are outstanding for transposition; the progress made to date to transpose each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22214/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I am fully aware of the importance of timely transposition of EU environmental legislation, some 200 items of which, including more than 140 directives, have by now been transposed in this country. There are seven directives in my Department's area of responsibility which are outstanding for transposition. These are: 2000/53/EC — end-of-life vehicles: this directive was due for transposition by 21 April 2002 with obligations imposed under the directive effective in respect of new vehicles sold after 1 July 2002 from that date and from 1 January 2007 for all other vehicles — it is anticipated that this directive will be fully transposed in 2005; 2002/49/EC — assessment and management of environmental noise: drafting of regulations to transpose this directive which was due for transposition by 18 July 2004 is well advanced and transposition is intended during this summer; 2002/88/EC — measures against the emission of gaseous and particulate pollutants from internal combustion engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery and 2004/26/EC — amending directive 97/68/EC on the approximation of the laws of member states relating to emissions from internal combustion engines in non-mobile road machinery: draft regulations transposing both directives are nearing completion with a view to transposition during this summer — the first directive was due for transposition by 11 August 2004 and the second by 20 May 2005; 2002/95/EC and 2002/96/EC, with its amending directive 2003/108/EC: these two related directives deal, respectively, with restrictions on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment and arrangements for dealing with waste electrical and electronic equipment and were due for transposition by 13 August 2004 — they will be fully transposed before 13 August 2005 when the take-back of electrical and electronic waste will become operable; and 2003/4/EC — public access to environmental information, repealing directive 90/313/EEC: legislative proposals for the transposition of this directive are in drafting. The directive was due for transposition by 14 February 2005. It is intended that it will be transposed by the end of the year.