--- title: "Auto Parts Recycling & the End-of-Life Vehicle Directive" description: "Why traceable dismantling matters: Directive 2000/53/EC, depollution, the 95% recovery target and how digitized yards prove reuse instead of promising it." url: https://lekotech.com/environment/ language: en --- # A reused part is the cheapest way to build nothing at all. Every part that leaves a yard with a record behind it is a part that does not have to be manufactured, shipped and packaged again. Digitizing dismantling is not a green slogan - it is the only way to prove reuse actually happened. - Directive 2000/53/EC - Depollution records - 95% recovery target - Traceable reuse ## A car is not scrap. It is a chemistry set on wheels. When a vehicle is stripped without control, what stays behind is not metal. It is oil, acid, coolant and gas in the ground. ### Contamination is local Engine oil and fuel are toxic to marine life and travel through stormwater. Battery acid changes the chemical balance of the soil around the yard. ### The rules have teeth Vehicle salvage is regulated by Directive 2000/53/EC. Operating outside it carries heavy fines and, in serious cases, arrest. ### Reuse beats recycling Recycling a part costs energy. Reusing it costs a shelf and a record. The greenest spare part is the one already built. ## What the regulation actually asks for. Directive 2000/53/EC, transposed in Albania through Decision no. 705 of 10.10.2012, sets targets and duties for everyone handling end-of-life vehicles. - Depollution before dismantling: fluids, gases, batteries and pyrotechnics removed and recorded. - Reuse and recovery of at least 95% of the average vehicle weight. - Trade in recovered parts is allowed, except for the safety components listed in Annex III. - Manufacturers and authorised treatment facilities share responsibility for collection. This page is a summary for orientation, not legal advice. Your national implementation is what applies to your yard. - 95% **Recovery target** *Re-use and recovery of at least 95% of the average weight per vehicle.* - Annex III **Excluded components** *Safety-critical components identified in the directive may not be traded as recovered parts.* - No. 705 **Albanian transposition** *Decision no. 705, dated 10.10.2012, brings the directive into national rules.* - Records **Proof of treatment** *Each vehicle needs a traceable record of depollution and destination of its parts.* ## What a digitized yard can prove. Compliance stops being a folder of paper when the same system that sells the part also records where it came from. ### Depollution recorded per vehicle The checklist lives with the vehicle record: what was drained, removed and neutralised, and when. ### Traceability per part Every part points back to its donor vehicle, so reuse can be demonstrated instead of claimed. ### Reporting without archaeology Volumes, weights and destinations are already in the system when an inspection asks for them. ### Reuse across borders A part that finds a buyer in another country stays in service instead of becoming shredder residue. 6M vehicles dismantled in Europe every year 95% recovery target per vehicle under the directive 0 new raw material needed for a reused part Reuse figures depend on the part and the vehicle. The point is simpler than any number: the part already exists. ## Run a yard that can prove what it does. We will show you how depollution, dismantling and sales records fit together in one system. Email us [Contact details](https://lekotech.com/contact.md) Questions about compliance reporting are welcome - we deal with them every week.