MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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Implementation of EU legislation on ELVs in
Romania, with references to Region 1
North-EastMihaela AMBARUSSenior AdvisorREPA
Bacau
TAIEX INFRA 30117Valencia, 12-13 June 2008
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Geografical Facts (2005)
Surface 238 391 km2 Counties 42 Inhabitants
21 623 849 Municipalities 2170 (319 towns)
Surface 36 850 km2 (15,5) Counties 6
Inhabitants 3 734 546 (17,3) Municipalities
551 (46 towns)
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Romanian Legislation
GD 2406/2004 regarding the ELVs management,
modified by GD 1313/2006
Directive 2000/53/CE on end-of-life vehicles
Common Ministerial Order of MEWM and MEC
88/110/2005 regarding the materials and
components of ELVs, which are and exception to
art 4, paragraph 1 of GD 2406/2004
amended by

• Commission Decision
• 2002/525/EC
• Commission Decision
• 2005/63/EC
• Commission Decision 2005/438/EC
• Council Decision 2005/673/EC
• Directive 2008/33/CE

Ministerial Order of MEWM 1224/2005 approving the
procedure and conditions for authorization of
legal entities for taking over the responsibility
regarding the fulfillment of the annual
objectives for reuse, recycling and energy
recovery of ELVs
Ministerial Order of MEWM 816/2006 for the
setting-up of the Commission for the evaluation
and permitting of juridical entities, regarding
the taking over of the responsibilities
regarding the annual objectives for reuse,
recycling and energy recovery of ELVs
Common Ministerial Order of MEWM, MAIA and
MTCT 87/527/411/2005 regarding the certificate of
destruction template and the issuance conditions
for the ELVs
Council Decision 2002/151/EC
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Responsible

• Ministry of Environment and Sustainable
  Development (MESD), together with
• Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF),
• Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform
  (MIAR),
• Ministry of Transport (MT)
• are responsible jointly for the transposition of
  the Directive into national measures and the
  development of an ELV management and control
  system

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Environmental Authorities-roles
MESD Ministry of Environment and Sustainable
Development
coordination
coordination
EFA Environmental Fund Administration
National Institute of Research and Development
for Environmental Protection-ICIM

• 2004 MESD drafted the Implementation Plan of the
  ELV Directive
• transposal of EU requirements in Romanian
  legislation, startegies and policies
• Annual report to EC about the percentage of
  accomplishment of re-use, recycle and recovery
  objectives.
• Every 3 year, sending to EC a report about the
  possible changes in the sectors of trade,
  treatment of ELVs that might affect competition
  in and between MS.

• finances
• projects for treament of ELVs put on the market
  by individual producers or producers who doesnt
  exist anymore
• annual programmes for renewing the national car
  fleet
• projects regarding the purchase of compliant
  technologies

• first inventory of the collectors and the
  dismantlers
• studies at MESD request

subordinaton
NEG National Environmental Guard
Controls the activities with environmental impact
and aplies penalties
subordinaton
subordinaton
NEPA National Environmental Protection Agency

• implementing the legislation
• issuing permits for the organizations for take
  over responsability
• monitoring the objectives and reporting to MESD
• collecting data
• creating national data bases

42 EPAs Environmental Protection Agencies
8 REPAs Regional Environmental Protection
Agencies

• issuing permits for collectors, dismantlers,
  treatment facilities
• monitoring the objectives
• collecting data

• issuing permits for treatment facilities under
  IPPC Directive.
• collecting data
• creating regional data bases

coordination
colaboration
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Objectives

• The objectives can be fulfilled
• Individual, by each producer
• Transfering the responsability to an organization
  authorised by National Environmental Protection
  Agency (until now, no application received)

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Obligations
Producers and importers (for new or second hand
cars)
Designing phase - prevent waste generation -
restrict the use of hazardous substances -
consider the possibilities of dismantling,
re-using and recovery of materials and components.
Production phase - promote the use of recycled
materials - exclude the materials containing Pb,
Hg, Cd, hexavalent Cr.
Collecting phase Establish a collection system
1 collection point in each county, 1 in every
town over 100,000 inhabitants and 3 in Bucharest

• Components of recycled plastic
• Recyclable plastics

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Obligations

• Collectors/dismantlers
• accept used vehicles without any costs
• issue the Certificate of destruction
• depollute operations
• separate temporary storage of recyclable waste
• keep the evidence of waste categories
• report annually, until 15th of March, to EPA
• Owner/holder
• bring the vehicles to an authorised collector
• get a de-registration form

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Permits required
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Some requirements for collectors

• fence
• concrete platform
• waste water treatment equipments
• adequate capacity of fire fighting equipment
• Operation Register (number of ELVs collected)

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Some requirements for dismantlers

• fence
• impermeable concrete platform
• waste water treatment equipments
• adequate capacity of fire fighting equipment
• Operation Register (ELVs number and
  identification data, depolluting steps, waste
  management reuse, recovery, disposal)

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Steps to be taken
De-registration
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Certificate of distruction
Dismantler/schreder
Collector
Owner/holder
Vehicle identification data
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Management of abandoned vehicles
Law 421/2002 modified by Law 309/2006
Municipality and Police Minute of finding a
vehicle
after 30 days of research
Mayor disposition The vehicle is declared
abandoned or without owner
Vehicles without owner
Abandoned vehicles
Owner identified
The owner is summoned to take back the vehicle
from the public domain within 5 days
The municipality publishes an announcement in a
local newspaper within 5 days
Restitution of the vehicle
Owner is not identified within 30 days
doest respond within 10 days
Vehicle is declared property of the municipality
sent to a treatment facility
sold
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Treatment phases

• Depollution removal of batteries, filters,
  catalysts, cooling fluids, brake fluids, oil,
  fuel, components with Hg (3)
• Dismantling removal of valuable
  components,motors, tires, carburettors, plastics,
  glass
• Schreding metal parts Recycling Recovery
• Disposal residues (15-25 vehicle mass)

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Romania-current situation

• In order to fulfil the requirements of the EU
  Directive 2000/53/EC by the required deadlines,
  several actions (institutional and operational)
  were realised
• in 2004, former MEWM (MMDD), prepared an
  implementation plan for this Directive,
  establishing objectives and measures.
• since 2004, several legislative acts were
  approved.
• preparations activities for the first report to
  European Commission regarding the meeting of
  targets.

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Romania-current situation

• According to the implementation plan, in 2003
  there were
• - 1.8 mil vehicles produced by Dacia (400,000
  over 20 years old)
• - 100,000 vehicles produced by Daewoo (max 8
  years old)
• - 100,000 vehicles produced by ARO (over 20
  years old)
• for 1990-2003
• - 120,000 new vehicles imported
• - 844,000 second-hand vehicles imported (mainly
  OPEL and Volkswagen)
• In 2007 around 40 brands were on the Romanian
  market.

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Romania/Reg. 1NE-current situation

• The total car fleet of recorded vehicles of the
  M1 and N1 class increases rapidly
• 2006 4,104,835 unit
• 2007 4,501,266 units

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Repartition of dismantlers
Relatively uniform
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Region 1 NE ELVs collected
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Environmental Fund

• Public fund created on the bases of the European
  principles "polluter pays" and "producer's
  responsibility to support the most important
  projects on environmental protection.
• its incomes are from contributions collected for
  industrial activities with impact on the
  environment and from pollution tax, paid at the
  first registration of a vehicle.
• Finances the collection and treatment of ELVs
  introduced on the Romanian market by individual
  producers or producers who doesnt exist anymore,
  if the value of spare parts and of the recyclable
  materials doesnt cover the cost.
• Since 2005 - Programmes for Renewal of National
  Car Fleet
• EFA ? grant of 3000 RON for a vehicle older than
  12 years, registered in Romania

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How to get in the program ?

• The applicants (only citizens) must
• get an Acceptance Note from an agreed dealer
• get the Certificate of Destruction for the ELV
  sent to an authorised collector/dismantler, based
  on Acceptance Note
• de-register the old vehicle
• buy a new vehicle.

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Reporting obligation (Ministerial Order 625/2007)

• Starting with 2007. For 2006, voluntary
  reporting.
• Methods
• Weighing, calculation based on subtraction
  method
• mass of reused materials mass of vehicle
  (mass of liquids from depollution mass of
  components sent to recycling or recovery mass
  of materials sent to landfill).
• Estimation of metal content, which is considered
  75 of medium mass of an empty ELV and
• reuse of non-metal components 3
• recycle of liquids 0.7
• recovery of liquids 1
• recycle of tires 1.2
• recovery of tires 2.4
• recycle of glass 1.4

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Main problems

• difficulties in setting up of individual or
  collective systems for the collection of ELV,
  evenly distributed in the territory
• the compliance with the restrictions in the use
  of heavy metals
• meeting the targets
• lack of treatment units
• difficulties in the development of technologies
  for the recycling/recovery of plastics and fluids
  from ELVs
• due to the fact that most of ELVs in Romania are
  25-30 year old, the reuse of the spear parts is
  not a real option
• 5 of car fleet are orphan vehicles (source RAR)
• imported vehicles 7 second-hand vehicles to 1
  new vehicle
• inexistence of an organization for taking over
  the responsibility regarding the fulfillment of
  the annual targets.

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Waste Management Plans

• 2004 approval of National Strategy and National
  Waste management Plan (no references to ELVs)
• 2006 Regional Waste Management Plans with a
  special chapter for ELVs, containing the
  description of the current situation (number of
  vehicles collected and treated, identification of
  the existing capacities for collecting and
  treatment of ELVs, for recycling, reusing,
  recovery and disposal of waste generated) and
  objectives.
• 2008 County Waste Management Plans

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Contact details

• Mihaela AMBARUS
• management.deseuri_at_arpmbc.ro