Article 2 Definitions

‘vehicle’ means any vehicle designated as category M1 or N1 defined in Annex IIA to Directive 70/156/EEC, and three wheel motor vehicles as defined in Directive 92/61/EEC, but excluding motor tricycles;

‘end-of life vehicle’ means a vehicle which is waste within the meaning of Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EEC;

‘producer’ means the vehicle manufacturer or the professional importer of a vehicle into a Member State;

‘prevention’ means measures aiming at the reduction of the quantity and the harmfulness for the environment of end-of life vehicles, their materials and substances;

‘treatment’ means any activity after the end-of life vehicle has been handed over to a facility for depollution, dismantling, shearing, shredding, recovery or preparation for disposal of the shredder wastes, and any other operation carried out for the recovery and/or disposal of the end-of life vehicle and its components;

‘reuse’ means any operation by which components of end-of life vehicles are used for the same purpose for which they were conceived;

‘recycling’ means the reprocessing in a production process of the waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes but excluding energy recovery. Energy recovery means the use of combustible waste as a means to generate energy through direct incineration with or without other waste but with recovery of the heat;

‘recovery’ means any of the applicable operations provided for in Annex IIB to Directive 75/442/EEC;

‘disposal’ means any of the applicable operations provided for in Annex IIA to Directive 75/442/EEC;

‘economic operators’ means producers, distributors, collectors, motor vehicle insurance companies, dismantlers, shredders, recoverers, recyclers and other treatment operators of end-of life vehicles, including their components and materials;

‘hazardous substance’ means any substance which fulfils the criteria for any of the following hazard classes or categories set out in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures ( 1 );

‘shredder’ means any device used for tearing into pieces or fragmenting end-of life vehicles, including for the purpose of obtaining directly reusable metal scrap;

‘dismantling information’ means all information required for the correct and environmentally sound treatment of end-of life vehicles. It shall be made available to authorised treatment facilities by vehicle manufacturers and component producers in the form of manuals or by means of electronic media (e.g. CD-ROM, on-line services).