Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the means by which it is proposed to impose the full cost of dismantling, treating and recycling end-of-life vehicles on manufacturers as per the recently published draft waste management, end-of-life, vehicle regulations 2006. [9862/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles, ELVs, incorporates measures aimed at: meeting new recovery and recycling targets for ELVs; ensuring that all end-of-life vehicles are deposited, dismantled, treated and recovered by industry at no cost to the final holder or owner of that vehicle and in a manner that does not cause environmental pollution; producers meeting the costs of free take-back of end-of-life vehicles with no market value; introducing systems whereby certificates of destruction are notified to the vehicle registration authorities on the deposit of end-of-life vehicles by their registered owners at authorised treatment facilities, ATFs, for appropriate treatment and recovery; and minimising the use of specified hazardous substances in vehicles.

Enabling legislative provisions were included in the Protection of the Environment Act 2003, which inserts a new part in the Waste Management Act 1996, to facilitate the development of regulations concerning implementation of the directive. I recently published draft waste management, end-of-life, vehicle regulations 2006 which will fully transpose and provide the framework for the implementation of the ELV directive. The regulations have been published in draft form to allow for a period of public consultation until 24 March.

Under the draft regulations, responsibility for putting in place a national network of authorised treatment facilities providing take-back of end-of-life vehicles of any particular brand will rest with the producer of that brand. As is the case in a number of European Union member states, issues in relation to cost of take-back of end-of-life vehicles will be the subject of contractual arrangements between each producer and the ATFs that form part of that producer's national network.