§ 33. Barbara FollettTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans her Department has to assist local authorities with the implementation of the European end of life vehicle directive.[13097]
§ Mr. MeacherLocal authorities are not intended to have any direct responsibility for implementing the European end of life directive.
The directive requires producers to be responsible for all or a significant part of the costs of take-back and treatment of end of life vehicles from 2007. These arrangements should help to ease the situation for local authorities in dealing with abandoned vehicles. It has not yet been decided how take-back and treatment of end of life vehicles between 2002 and 2007 will be funded.