End-of-life vehicles. ELV Directive  
1997/0194(COD) - 11/06/1996  

POSITION OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: in its resolution of 18 September 1992 on the Green Paper on the impact of transport on the environment, a Community strategy for sustainable mobility (OJ C 284, 2.11.1992, p. 164), Parliament calls on the Commission "to submit proposals for integrated management in order to take account of the external costs of production and processing (recycling/disposal) of vehicles without, however, transferring all the burden of the past onto transport". SITUATION IN THE MEMBER STATES: voluntary agreements between the industries concerned have been concluded in the following Member States: Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom. However, there has been no resultant national legislation.