- authorised representative for the cross-border mechanism
means a natural or legal person established in a Member State and appointed by the manufacturer in accordance with Article 22;
- authorised representative for the extended producer responsibility
means a natural or legal person established in a Member State in which the producer makes vehicles available on the market for the first time, other than the Member State or the third country where the producer is established, and is appointed by the producer in accordance with Article 8a(5), third subparagraph, of Directive 2008/98/EC to fulfil the obligations of that producer under Chapter IV of this Regulation;
- authorised treatment facility
means any establishment or undertaking that is permitted in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC and this Regulation to carry out collection, storage and treatment operations of end-of-life vehicles, including their parts and components;
- biobased plastics
means biobased plastics as defined in Article 3, point 53, of Regulation (EU) 2025/40;
- collection point
means an economic operator, other than an authorised treatment facility, which temporarily stores end-of-life vehicles and prepares the transfer of the collected end-of-life vehicles to authorised treatment facilities for treatment;
- critical raw materials
means critical raw materials within the meaning of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1252;
- customs authorities
means customs authorities as defined in Article 5, point (1), of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
- e-drive motor
means an electric motor that converts electrical input power into mechanical output power to provide traction to a vehicle;
- economic operator
means a producer, collector, vehicle insurance company, supplier, repair and maintenance operator, waste management operator, including a dismantler or recycler, and any other operator involved in design of vehicles, trade in used vehicles, dismantling, reuse, or management of end-of-life vehicles, remanufacturing and refurbishment of parts, components and materials from vehicles;
- electric vehicle battery
means electric vehicle battery as defined in Article 3(1), point (14), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542;
- end-of-life vehicle
means a vehicle which is waste as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2008/98/EC, or which is waste according to Annex I of this Regulation;
- making available on the market
means a supply of a vehicle for distribution or use on the market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
- non-inert waste
means waste that does not meet the conditions of definition of ‘inert waste’ laid down in Article 2, point (e), of Council Directive 1999/31/EC;
- online platform
means online platform as defined in Article 3, point (i), of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065;
- packaging waste
means packaging waste as defined in Article 3, point (25), of Regulation (EU) 2025/40 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- placing on the market
means making available a vehicle for the first time on the Union market;
- plastic
means a polymer within the meaning of Article 3, point (5), of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, to which additives or other substances may have been added and which can function as a main structural component of final products, with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified;
- post-consumer waste
means waste that is generated from products that have been placed on the market or supplied for distribution, consumption or use in a third country in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
- post-shredder technology
means techniques and technologies used to process materials from end-of-life vehicles, after they have been shredded, for further recovery in accordance with Part G, point 2, of Annex VIII;
- pre-consumer waste
means material diverted from the waste stream during a manufacturing process, excluding reutilisation of materials such as rework, regrind or scrap generated in a process and capable of being reclaimed within the same process that generated it;
- producer
means any manufacturer, importer or distributor who, irrespective of the selling technique used, including by means of distance contracts as defined in Article 2, point (7), of Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, makes available a vehicle for the first time for distribution or use, within a territory of a Member State on a professional basis;
- producer responsibility organisation
means a legal entity that financially or financially and operationally organises the fulfilment of extended producer responsibility obligations on behalf of several producers;
- reclamation
means reclamation as defined in Article 3, point (13), of Regulation (EU) 2024/573.
- recoverability
means the possibility for recovery of parts, components or materials diverted from an end-of-life vehicle;
- recyclability
means the possibility for recycling of parts, components or materials diverted from an end-of-life vehicle;
- reference vehicle
means the version within a vehicle type, which is identified by the type-approval authority, in consultation with the manufacturer and in accordance with the criteria laid down in Part A, as being the most problematic in terms of reusability, recyclability and recoverability.
- refurbishment
means actions carried out to prepare, clean, test, service and, where necessary, repair a part or component that is removed from vehicles or end-of-life vehicles in order to restore its performance or functionality within the intended use and range of performance originally conceived at the design stage at the time of the placing of the part or component on the market;
- remanufacturing
means professional actions through which a new part or component is manufactured to return to same-as-new condition from parts and components that are removed from vehicles or end-of-life vehicles and through which at least one change is made that affects the safety, lifetime, performance, purpose or type of the part or component, in a process that is in compliance with specific technical specifications, including engineering, quality and testing standards;
- removal
means manual, mechanical, chemical, thermal or metallurgic handling with the result that the targeted parts, components or materials from end-of-life vehicles are individually identifiable as a separate output stream or part of an output stream;
- repair and maintenance operator
means a natural or legal person who pursues a professional activity directly or indirectly involving the repair and maintenance of vehicles, including repairers, manufacturers or distributors of repair equipment, tools or spare parts, as well as publishers of technical information, automobile clubs, roadside assistance operators, operators offering inspection and testing services, operators offering training for installers as well as manufacturers and repairers of equipment for alternative-fuel vehicles;
- retrofit operator
means any legal person that manufactures an electric conversion kit or performs the conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles to battery-electric or fuel cell vehicles;
- reusability
means the possibility for reuse of parts or components diverted from an end-of-life vehicle;
- reuse
means any operation by which parts or components of end-of-life vehicles are used again for the same purpose for which they were conceived;
- roadworthy vehicle
means a vehicle that is roadworthy in accordance with Directive 2014/45/EU;
- secondary raw materials
means materials that can substitute for primary raw materials and that have been obtained through recycling processes;
- shredding
means an operation used for tearing into pieces or fragmenting end-of-life vehicles;
- small-volume manufacturer
means small-volume manufacturer as defined in Article 3, point (48), of Regulation (EU) 2024/1257;
- supplier
means any natural or legal person who supplies parts, components or materials to a manufacturer who uses them to manufacture vehicles;
- treatment
means any activity taking place after the end-of-life vehicle has been handed over to a facility for depollution, dismantling, compacting, shearing, shredding, recovery or preparation prior to disposal of the shredder waste, and another operation carried out for the recovery or disposal of the end-of-life vehicle and its parts, components and materials;
- used vehicle
means a vehicle which has been registered in a Member State or a third country and is not an end-of-life vehicle;
- used vehicle to be exported
means a used vehicle that is to be placed under the customs procedure, as laid down in Article 269 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013;
- vehicle
means any vehicle as defined in Article 3, point (15), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 or listed in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013;
- vehicle owner
means any natural or legal person holding the ownership right of a vehicle or the holder of the vehicle registration certificate or, if neither the holder of the ownership right nor the holder of the vehicle registration certificate can be identified, the holder of the vehicle;
- vehicle produced in small series
means vehicle produced in small series as referred to in Article 42 of that Regulation;
- vehicle type
means any type of vehicle as defined in Article 3, point (32), of Regulation (EU) 2018/858 or vehicle type as defined in Article 3, point (73), of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013;
- waste electrical and electronic equipment
means waste electrical and electronic equipment as defined in Article 3(1), point (e), of Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- waste management operator
means any natural or legal person dealing on a professional basis with the collection or treatment of end-of-life vehicles, including their parts and components;