Batteries main topic EGARA Fall Meeting

EGARA had her Fall meeting 2017 in Brussels again. Besides the usual topics of the association, like finances and action plan and so, batteries took most of the time we spent together. Main reason for this is the Battery Directive consultation that ended last november...

Merge DAG and BGD

General Secretary Børge Madsen was pleased to inform us that Dansk Autogenbrug, DAG, has merged with Bilgenbrug Denmark, BGD, from 1 October 2017. The new organization is called Dansk Autogenbrug (DAG). Elected as his first president, Søren Lundfold was President of...

Newsflash Spring Meeting Helsinki with MEP, EC and Ministry

EGARA’s spring Meeting was held in Helsinki this year. The morning conference counted three impressive, interesting speakers: Artemis Hatzi-Hull (EC, DG Environment), Anna-Maija Pajukallio (Senior Environmental Adviser, Head of Unit, Ministry of the Environment...

IARC Berlin 2017

Last March 22nd – 24th, the International automobile recycling congress took place. EGARA was of the speakers amongst many others. EGARA also took part in the press conference. Apart from speakers, many stakeholders and people of interest for EGARA were present....

EGARA at IARC 2017

The IARC (International Automotive Recyclers Congress) 2017 will be held in Berlin from March 22nd- 24th. EGARA will be one of the speakers in the morning programme on Thursday 23rd. Name of the speech is “The challenges of sustainable car dismatling. EGARA is happy...

EGARA Fall Meeting 2016 Brussels

Last November 18th, EGARA had her Fall Meeting in Brussels. New to the group were Carina Hagström from Sweden and Kari Laine and Veli-Matti from Finland. We were also very happy to welcome Mrs. Artemis Hatzi-Hull for the morning session. Main items were: Stakeholder...

Missing ELV’s consultation

Missing ELV’s consultation Newsflash As numbers of missing ELV’s vary from 4 to 8 million a year in Europe, it’s high enough to have the Commissions’ attention. Ökopol had the task of performing a consultation which ended in the end of September. EGARA is glad with...

Spring Meeting EGARA Toulouse 2016

This year’s springmeeting was held in France on May 21st. Biggest news is the withdrawal of Paul Fox as chairman. Being no longer active as a dismantler, he felt he was no longer fit for being EGARA’s chairman. In his goodbye he stated to really have enjoyed being...

EGARA informs EC about funds and figures

One of EGARA’s activities is a modest lobby at the EC. In this form we are sometimes asked for our opinion or for our information and data. As EGARA is not a statistic organisation we do not always have data present. In order to collect some, a small questionnaire can...

Fall meeting EGARA

EGARA had her Fall meeting in Brussels again. Brussels is central and the EC is close. Mrs Artemis Hatzi-Hull had the time to visit our meeting to give some updates and Mr. Johannes Chatzis from IDIS had a presentation about the IDIS system. IDIS In the IDIS system,...