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.
Environment
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
95%
Re-use and recovery target per vehicle
- Engine oil and fluids Collected and logged
- Fuel and A/C gas Extracted
- Battery and acids Removed
- Airbags and pyrotechnics Neutralised
- Tyres and glass Separated
- Catalytic converter Registered
Why it matters
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.
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.
The framework
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.
Our part
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.
Questions about compliance reporting are welcome - we deal with them every week.