The benefit of feedback

Recently EGARA invited her member associations to give feedback on the ELV Directive as the EC asked for this in an online questionnaire. These requests are often mentioned in the EU Transparancy register. Sometimes EGARA is invited via mail, we always check if the...

III International Conference FORS Poland

As Polish Car Recyclers Association FORS we were honored to organize the III International Conference – Domestic and Worldwide Vehicles Recycling, which was entitled “Together Against The Black Economy” . The conference was held on October 2, 2018 in the...

Waste Package

The Waste Package was published in June and has the focus of all that are involved in ELV processing. Some topics are about electrics in vehicles and splitting up waste from ELV’s to other Directives than the ELV Directive or about future technical and legal...

ELV review will assess electrical parts in cars

VIDEO REPORT: The process of reviewing the End of Life Vehicle (ELV) Directive before the EU Commission is now getting underway. On the agenda will be how to classify the increasing amount of electrical products in cars, either under the WEEE directive (waste...

EGARA visits officials Brussels

This last May, EGARA managed to make some appointments in Brussels with important officials/stakeholders in order to discuss our business and goals. We spoke with MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen, we spoke with Helena Taimisto, political assistant of MEP Merja Kyllönen, with...

Consultation on Waste shipment regulation

The EC announced a consultation on the evaluation of the Waste Shipment Evaluation (WSR). The Regulation No 1418/2007 is also taken into account. How does waste legislation affect car dismantling? Because in some cases our parts are considered waste which means...

Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2018

Media Release of February 21, 2018: Interview with Joseph M. Holsten 18th International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2018 Time flies and now it’s only 3 weeks to the International Automobile Recycling Congress IARC 2018 in Vienna. We hope that you will...

EGARA spare parts update

Spare parts is one of the main topics at EGARA. We need them to know what we have, if we can sell the customer what he needs and what is necessary in order to make it function in the customers car. In this update we try to give an overview of the aspects of parts...

Visit EC EGARA board

By Chas Ambrose The Fall meeting of EGARA (European Group of Auto Recycling Associations) was held on November 16th-17th in Brussels, the home of the European Union/ Commission/ Council/ Parliament. Fittingly, as part of the meeting, the EGARA Secretariat had...