Newsflash 2006.01.27

2015- Target Review Report has been published As you may recall, EGARA held the vice-chairmanship on the European Commissions Stakeholder Working Group (SWG) investigating the possibilities for achieving the 2015-targets in the ELV-directive. The final report has now...

Newsflash 2006.01.23

EGARA goes for International cooperation between associations The world is getting more and more global, and the Automotive recyclers now take this into account, by stimulating cooperation between associations. Basically we, together, have a lot of competencies and...

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS WITH LEGAL SERVICE OF DG ENVIROMENT

2005.10.04 – 05. On collection systems/Producers’ network If follows from Article 2.10,: “economic operators” means producers, distributors, collectors, motor vehicle insurance companies, dismantlers, shredders, recoverers, recyclers and other treatment...

EGARA ARTICLE IN NORDIC RECYCLING REVIEW (NB)

Some people never give up – it seems: Polish proposal to ban re-use of certain parts proposed! EGARA makes a complaint. Way back in summer 2002, the Commission’s DG Enterprise – as responsible for the Type Approval Directive – held a work-shop on re-use of parts...

European ELV-directive

Recent developments Introduction As some readers may recall, I last time wrote about the definition of producer responsibility and work/costs necessary in order to de-pollute an ELV. Since then, things have developed and a new “hot item” for Automotive Recyclers have...

MEETING WITH GM, Rüsselsheim

MEETING WITH GM, Rüsselsheim 2005.06.14 Participants: GM:    Willi Fey, Kai Siegwart EGARA: Paul Fox, Lennart Scharff Purpose of the meeting:   To analyse the figures on work-time needed for de-pollution and dismantling for recycling as required in the ELV-directive,...