{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-689/annex",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-689/annex.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2008/689",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 1 August 2008 amending Annex II to Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on end-of-life vehicles (notified under document number C(2008) 4017) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/689/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-689",
  "path": "annex",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "‘ANNEX II\nMaterials and components exempt from Article 4(2)(a)\nDismantling if, in correlation with entry 10, an average threshold of 60 grams per vehicle is exceeded. For the application of this clause, electronic devices not installed by the manufacturer on the production line shall not be taken into account.\nDismantling if, in correlation with entry 8, an average threshold of 60 grams per vehicle is exceeded. For the application of this clause, electronic devices not installed by the manufacturer on the production line shall not be taken into account.\nMaterials and components\nScope and expiry date of the exemption\nTo be labelled or made identifiable in accordance with Article 4(2)(b)(iv)\nLead as an alloying element\n1.\nSteel for machining purposes and galvanised steel containing up to 0,35 % lead by weight\n2(a).\nAluminium for machining purposes with a lead content up to 2 % by weight\nAs spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2005\n2(b).\nAluminium with a lead content up to 1,5 % by weight\nAs spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2008\n2(c).\nAluminium with a lead content up to 0,4 % by weight\n3.\nCopper alloy containing up to 4 % lead by weight\n4(a).\nBearing shells and bushes\nAs spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2008\n4(b).\nBearing shells and bushes in engines, transmissions and air conditioning compressors\n1 July 2011 and after that date as spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2011\nLead and lead compounds in components\n5.\nBatteries\nX\n6.\nVibration dampers\nX\n7(a).\nVulcanising agents and stabilisers for elastomers in brake hoses, fuel hoses, air ventilation hoses, elastomer/metal parts in the chassis applications, and engine mountings\nAs spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2005\n7(b).\nVulcanising agents and stabilisers for elastomers in brake hoses, fuel hoses, air ventilation hoses, elastomer/metal parts in the chassis applications, and engine mountings containing up to 0,5 % lead by weight\nAs spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2006\n7(c).\nBonding agents for elastomers in powertrain applications containing up to 0,5 % lead by weight\n1 July 2009\n8(a).\nSolder in electronic circuit boards and other electrical applications except on glass\nVehicles type approved before 31 December 2010 and spare parts for these vehicles (review in 2009)\nX\n8(b).\nSolder in electrical applications on glass\nVehicles type approved before 31 December 2010 and spare parts for these vehicles (review in 2009)\nX\n9.\nValve seats\nAs spare parts for engine types developed before 1 July 2003\n10.\nElectrical components which contain lead in a glass or ceramic matrix compound except glass in bulbs and glaze of spark plugs\nX\n(for components other than piezo in engines)\n11.\nPyrotechnic initiators\nVehicles type approved before 1 July 2006 and spare parts for these vehicles\nHexavalent chromium\n12(a).\nCorrosion preventive coatings\nAs spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2007\n12(b).\nCorrosion preventive coatings related to bolt and nut assemblies for chassis applications\nAs spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2008\n13.\nAbsorption refrigerators in motorcaravans\nX\nMercury\n14(a).\nDischarge lamps for headlight application\nVehicles type approved before 1 July 2012 and spare parts for these vehicles\nX\n14(b).\nFluorescent tubes used in instrument panel displays\nVehicles type approved before 1 July 2012 and spare parts for these vehicles\nX\nCadmium\n15.\nBatteries for electrical vehicles\n31 December 2008 and after that date as spare parts for vehicles put on the market before 31 December 2008\nNotes:\nA maximum concentration value up to 0,1 % by weight and in homogeneous material, for lead, hexavalent chromium and mercury and up to 0,01 % by weight in homogeneous material for cadmium shall be tolerated.\nThe re-use of parts of vehicles which were already on the market at the date of expiry of an exemption shall be allowed without limitation since it is not covered by Article 4(2)(a).\nSpare parts put on the market after 1 July 2003 which are used for vehicles put on the market before 1 July 2003 shall be exempted from the provisions of Article 4(2)(a).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Dismantling if, in correlation with entry 10, an average threshold of 60 grams per vehicle is exceeded. For the application of this clause, electronic devices not installed by the manufacturer on the production line shall not be taken into account."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Dismantling if, in correlation with entry 8, an average threshold of 60 grams per vehicle is exceeded. For the application of this clause, electronic devices not installed by the manufacturer on the production line shall not be taken into account."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "This clause shall not apply to wheel balance weights, carbon brushes for electric motors and brake linings.’"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/689/annex",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:44.198879+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}