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Circularity requirements for vehicle design and on management of end-of-life vehicles, amending Regulations (EU) 2018/858 and 2019/1020 and repealing Directives 2000/53/EC and 2005/64/EC

Jens Gieseke, Paulius Saudargas – Provisional agreement – Am 428
Date: 18.06.2026·Reference: A10-0158/2025
Rapporteur: Paulius Saudargas, Jens Gieseke

Overall Result

Adopted
  • 437 For
  • 112 Against
  • 20 Abstention
  • 150 Did not vote
Status and procedure

Outcome as recorded by the European Parliament.

Vote held on
Latest recorded step
Official Journal · (112 days ago)
Next scheduled step
No further step is scheduled in the source.
Publication in the Official Journal recorded

Procedure timeline

2023/0284(COD) · COD

Recorded procedure activities. These do not establish whether a law has entered into force.

  1. Recorded: Referral460 days until the next step
  2. Recorded: Committee stage197 days until the next step
  3. Recorded: Plenary34 days until the next step
  4. Recorded: Negotiations169 days until the next step
  5. Recorded: Committee stage105 days until the next step
  6. Recorded: Plenary28 days until the next step
  7. Recorded: Signature16 days until the next step
  8. Latest recorded: Official Journal
Recorded activities (39)
  1. Referral to committee
  2. Committee report tabled
  3. Committee amendments tabled
  4. Committee amendments tabled
  5. Committee amendments tabled
  6. Committee amendments tabled
  7. Committee amendments tabled
  8. Committee amendments tabled
  9. Committee amendments tabled
  10. Committee amendments tabled
  11. Committee opinion adopted
  12. Committee report adopted
  13. Tabling for plenary
  14. Tabling for plenary
  15. Tabling for plenary
  16. Tabling for plenary
  17. Tabling for plenary
  18. Tabling for plenary
  19. Tabling for plenary
  20. Tabling for plenary
  21. Plenary debate
  22. Text amended in plenary
  23. Referred back to committee for interinstitutional negotiations
  24. Plenary vote
  25. Plenary vote results
  26. Interinstitutional negotiations
  27. Interinstitutional negotiations
  28. Interinstitutional negotiations
  29. Provisional agreement approved in committee
  30. Committee opinion adopted
  31. Tabling for plenary
  32. Tabling for plenary
  33. Tabling for plenary
  34. Parliament’s first-reading position
  35. Plenary debate
  36. Plenary vote
  37. Plenary vote results
  38. Signature
  39. Publication in the Official Journal
Scheduled activities (not confirmation of completion)
  1. Plenary debate
  2. Plenary vote
  3. Plenary debate
  4. Plenary vote

Procedure file (OEIL) · European Parliament data
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Sources

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What is this about?

  • Circular economy for vehicles mandatory from 2025 .
  • Manufacturer liability for end-of-life vehicle disposal and recycling.
  • Exemptions for military vehicles and historic vehicles.
Source: AI Summary with Mistral

Amendment history (19)

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

  1. Amendment 387Rejected

    Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)

    Tabled by Sara Matthieu, David Cormand · Verts/ALE

    Added: 4 a. Manufacturers shall ensure that at least the vehicle parts and components listed in Part C of Annex VII are available as spare parts and components for a minimum of 20 years after placing the last unit of their vehicle model on the market, with a reasonable and non-discriminatory price for repair and maintenance operators and end-users.

  2. Amendment 388Rejected

    Article 18 – paragraph 1

    Tabled by Sara Matthieu, David Cormand · Verts/ALE

    1. Producers Removed: may choose to Added: shall fulfil their extended producer responsibility obligations Removed: either individually or may entrust Added: by entrusting a producer responsibility organisation authorised in accordance with Article 19 to fulfill …

  3. Amendment 389Rejected

    Article 38 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)

    Tabled by Sara Matthieu, David Cormand · Verts/ALE

    Added: (b a) Euro 4/IV vehicles or vehicles registered under more recent emission standards.

  4. Amendment 390Rejected

    Article 55 – paragraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Sara Matthieu, David Cormand · Verts/ALE

    Added: 2 a. By ... [60 months from the date of entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall conduct an assessment of the potential expansion of the extended producer responsibility to vehicles exported from the Union and the modalities of a transboundary extended producer responsibility fee mechanism, to ensure that end-of-life vehicle treatment operations in third countries are adequately financed. The assessment shall be followed, where appropriate, by a legislative proposal to the European Parliament and the Council.

  5. Amendment 391Rejected

    Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: (b a) The minimum rates of 85 % reusability or recyclability by mass referred to in point (a), and 95 % reusability or recoverability by mass referred to in point (b), shall be set on an indicative basis and shall be periodically reviewed by the Commission in order to take account of the economic conditions of domestic car manufacturers and technological progress.

  6. Amendment 392Rejected

    Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: 1 a. By way of derogation, manufacturers may request from the competent type-approval authority an exemption from the rates laid down in this paragraph, where compliance would result in a disproportionate increase in the final price of the vehicle.

  7. Amendment 393Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    … of entry into force of the Regulation] under Regulation (EU) 2018/858 shall Added: not contain a minimum Removed: of 25 % Added: percentage of recycled plastic but shall only be declared by weight as regards the percentage of plastic recycled Removed: by weight from post-consumer plastic waste.

  8. Amendment 394Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

    Added: Member States may temporarily suspend the application of the obligations set out in Article 6(1) where the availability or price levels of secondary raw materials reach levels liable to undermine the competitiveness of their automotive industry.

  9. Amendment 395Rejected

    Recital 19

    Tabled by Silvia Sardone, Filip Turek, Nikola Bartůšek +6 · PfE

    … should be included in new vehicles. Accordingly, each vehicle type should contain Removed: twenty-five Added: ten percent of plastic recycled from Added: pre-consumer plastic waste and post-consumer plastic waste. Removed: Twenty-five percent of this recycled content target for plastics should be achieved by including plastics recycled from end-of-life vehicles in the vehicle type concerned. In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation this obligation, implementing …

  10. Amendment 396Rejected

    Article 2 – paragraph 6 – introductory part

    Tabled by Filip Turek, Silvia Sardone, Mathilde Androuët +6 · PfE

    6. Removed: Notwithstanding Added: Without prejudice to paragraph 1, points (b) and (c), Articles 16, 19, 20, 27 and 46 to 49 shall apply to vehicles and end-of-life vehicles of categories Removed: L3, L4, L5, L6 L7, Added: L, M2, M3, N2, N3 and O Added: and to parts other than the base vehicle of a vehicle of category N1, N2, N3, M2 or M3 which has not been approved in a single-stage type approval, with the following modifications:

  11. Amendment 397Rejected

    Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 9

    Tabled by Silvia Sardone, Filip Turek, Mathilde Androuët +6 · PfE

    (9) ‘plastic’ means a polymer within the meaning of Article 3, Removed: point (5), of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, Added: points (2) and (3), of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011, to which additives or other substances may have been Removed: added; Added: added, capable of functioning as a main structural component of final materials and articles, including biobased plastic, and excluding adhesives, coatings and sealants.

  12. Amendment 398Rejected

    Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new)

    Tabled by Silvia Sardone, Filip Turek, Mathilde Androuët +6 · PfE

    Added: (9 a) ‘biobased plastics’ means plastics made from biological resources, such as biomass, feedstock, organic waste or by-products, and irrespective of whether the plastics are biodegradable or not;

  13. Amendment 401Rejected

    Article 6

    Tabled by Silvia Sardone, Filip Turek, Mathilde Androuët +6 · PfE

    Removed: [...] Added: deleted

  14. Amendment 402Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

    Tabled by Silvia Sardone, Filip Turek, Mathilde Androuët +6 · PfE

    The plastic contained in each Added: new vehicle type that is type-approved as of [OP: Please insert the date … of the Regulation] under Regulation (EU) 2018/858 shall contain a minimum of Removed: 25 Added: 10 % of plastic recycled by weight from Added: pre-consumer plastic waste and post-consumer plastic waste.

  15. Amendment 403Rejected

    Article 6 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

    Tabled by Silvia Sardone, Filip Turek, Mathilde Androuët +6 · PfE

    Removed: At least 25 % of the target set out in the first subparagraph shall be achieved by including plastics recycled from end-of-life vehicles in the vehicle type concerned. Added: deleted

  16. Amendment 407Rejected

    Annex VII – Part C – point 4

    Tabled by Filip Turek, Silvia Sardone, Mathilde Androuët +6 · PfE

    Removed: 4. Engines; Added: deleted

  17. Amendment 412Rejected

    Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15

    Tabled by Alexandr Vondra, Carlo Fidanza, Pietro Fiocchi +2 · ECR

    … permitted in accordance with Directive 2008/98/EC and this Regulation to carry out Removed: collection and treatment of end-of-life vehicles; Added: the collection and storage of end-of-life vehicles or of their parts and components, the issuance of the certificate of destruction, the depollution of end-of-life vehicles, and the removal of parts and components and parts, where technically feasible and economically sustainable;

  18. Amendment 416Rejected

    Annex VII – Part C – point 6

    Tabled by Alexandr Vondra, Laurence Trochu · ECR

    Removed: 6. Gear boxes; Added: deleted

  19. Amendment 417Rejected

    Annex VII – Part C – point 16

    Tabled by Alexandr Vondra, Laurence Trochu · ECR

    Removed: 16. Heat exchangers; Added: deleted

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SpainEPP
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SwedenS&D
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ItalyECR
For
PortugalEPP
For
GreeceGUE/NGL
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GreeceEPP
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NetherlandsRenew
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NetherlandsGreens/EFA
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NetherlandsECR
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