ARE YOU GETTING RID OF YOUR OLD CAR?

Firstly, you need to know about new regulations which are effective from 1 January 2007 for all end-of-life cars. The regulations introduce an EU Directive aimed at ensuring that old cars are depolluted and dismantled in a manner that doesn’t pose a threat to our environment or to human health.

The regulations place obligations on the producers (that is to say
vehicle manufacturers/importers), dismantler/vehicle scrap facilities and you the car owner.

In future, facilities dealing with end-of-life vehicles must meet stringent new environmental standards for the collection, storage and treatment of end-of-life vehicles. These facilities are known as authorised treatment facilities (or ATFs for short).

You should bring your old car to an authorised treatment facility who will issue you with a Certificate of Destruction which will confirm that the vehicle will be depolluted and dismantled in an environmentally safe manner. The facility will then notify the Vehicle Registration Unit in Shannon and the destruction of your vehicle will be noted in the National Vehicle File. The only document you need to give the facility is the Vehicle Registration Certificate (RF101) or the log book for the car.

Where an authorised treatment facility accepts an intact end-of-life vehicle, no charge may be imposed by the facility on the owner of that vehicle.

You should only deal with a properly permitted authorised treatment facility when getting rid of your old vehicle as these are the only ones that have met the new environmental standards and can issue Certificates of Destruction.