S.L. 549.36 Art. 1Citation and objectives.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Waste Management

(End of Life Vehicles) Regulations.

(2) These regulations provide additional measures, procedures and guidance to those in the Waste Regulations, which aim, as a first priority, at the prevention of waste from vehicles and, in addition, at the re-use, recycling and other forms of recovery of end of life vehicles and their components so as to reduce the disposal of waste. They also aim to achieve the improvement in the environmental performance of all of the economic operators involved in the life cycle of vehicles and, especially, the operators directly involved in the treatment of end of life vehicles.

(3) These regulations bring into effect the provisions of Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of-life vehicles, as amended by Directive 2008/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008, Directive 2008/112/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008, Commission Directive 2017/ 2096/EU of 15 November 2017, Commission Delegated Directive

(EU) 2020/362 of 17 December 2019, , Commission Delegated Directive 2020/363/EU of 17 December 2019, and Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2023/544 of 16 December 2022.

(4) The Environment and Resources Authority, the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority and the Authority for Transport in Malta shall, in carrying out their designated responsibilities, ensure that the objectives of these regulations are achieved.

(5) These regulations shall be read and construed in the context of the provisions of the Extended Producer Responsibility Framework Regulations.

*Legal Notice 96 of 2012 erroneously referred to the substitution of Schedule 4 of these Regulations. The reference should have been to Schedule 3 since the original Schedule 4 (which deals with ‘Materials and components exempt from regulation 4’) had been re-numbered as Schedule 3 by Legal Notice 244 of 2011.