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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-53/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2000/53",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on end-of life vehicles",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-53",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive:\n1.. ‘vehicle’ means any vehicle designated as category M1 or N1 defined in Annex IIA to Directive 70/156/EEC, and three wheel motor vehicles as defined in Directive 92/61/EEC, but excluding motor tricycles;\n2.. ‘end-of life vehicle’ means a vehicle which is waste within the meaning of Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EEC;\n3.. ‘producer’ means the vehicle manufacturer or the professional importer of a vehicle into a Member State;\n4.. ‘prevention’ means measures aiming at the reduction of the quantity and the harmfulness for the environment of end-of life vehicles, their materials and substances;\n5.. ‘treatment’ means any activity after the end-of life vehicle has been handed over to a facility for depollution, dismantling, shearing, shredding, recovery or preparation for disposal of the shredder wastes, and any other operation carried out for the recovery and/or disposal of the end-of life vehicle and its components;\n6.. ‘reuse’ means any operation by which components of end-of life vehicles are used for the same purpose for which they were conceived;\n7.. ‘recycling’ means the reprocessing in a production process of the waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes but excluding energy recovery. Energy recovery means the use of combustible waste as a means to generate energy through direct incineration with or without other waste but with recovery of the heat;\n8.. ‘recovery’ means any of the applicable operations provided for in Annex IIB to Directive 75/442/EEC;\n9.. ‘disposal’ means any of the applicable operations provided for in Annex IIA to Directive 75/442/EEC;\n10.. ‘economic operators’ means producers, distributors, collectors, motor vehicle insurance companies, dismantlers, shredders, recoverers, recyclers and other treatment operators of end-of life vehicles, including their components and materials;\n11.. ‘hazardous substance’ means any substance which fulfils the criteria for any of the following hazard classes or categories set out in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures ;\n(a) hazard classes 2.1 to 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7, 2.8 types A and B, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13 categories 1 and 2, 2.14 categories 1 and 2, 2.15 types A to F;\n(b) hazard classes 3.1 to 3.6, 3.7 adverse effects on sexual function and fertility or on development, 3.8 effects other than narcotic effects, 3.9 and 3.10;\n(c) hazard class 4.1;\n(d) hazard class 5.1;\n12.. ‘shredder’ means any device used for tearing into pieces or fragmenting end-of life vehicles, including for the purpose of obtaining directly reusable metal scrap;\n13.. ‘dismantling information’ means all information required for the correct and environmentally sound treatment of end-of life vehicles. It shall be made available to authorised treatment facilities by vehicle manufacturers and component producers in the form of manuals or by means of electronic media (e.g. CD-ROM, on-line services).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2008/112/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 amending Council Directives 76/768/EEC, 88/378/EEC, 1999/13/EC and Directives 2000/53/EC, 2002/96/EC and 2004/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council in order to adapt them to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 353, 31.12.2008, p. 1 ."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}