MEPs vote for report pushing auto sector to recycle of end-of-use parts 

Published on 09/09/2025 - 17:49 GMT+2

European lawmakers called for carmakers to sustainably dispose car parts erstwhile they go useless erstwhile they voted to adopt a European Parliament committee study successful Strasbourg connected Tuesday.

New vehicles should beryllium designed taking into account the easy removal of arsenic galore parts and components arsenic imaginable by authorised curen facilities, according to nan projected law. 

According to charismatic EU data, astir 6.5 cardinal of nan full 285.6 cardinal centrifugal vehicles connected EU roads travel to nan extremity of their lives each year.

MEPs backed nan study connected nan circularity requirements for conveyance creation and improved guidance of end-of-life vehicles put guardant by nan situation and soul marketplace committees successful nan Parliament, pinch 431 lawmakers successful favour and 145 against.

The projected rule also introduces a mandatory target for nan usage of recycled plastics successful caller vehicles ­— a minimum 20% of recycled integrative wrong six years, down from nan 25% projected by nan European Commission ­— and opens nan doorway to early targets for recycled steel, aluminium, and critical earthy materials, based connected mandated monitoring and information collection.

Centrist lawmaker Jens Gieseke, starring nan legislative record successful nan Parliament, flagged nan value of nan automotive manufacture arsenic a “key driver” of economical maturation and invention successful Europe and openly expressed his committedness to take sides nan sector.

“We've avoided unnecessary burdens connected manufacturers and citizens, alternatively mounting feasible and realistic targets,” Gieseke, who sits pinch nan European People’s Party (EPP), said aft nan vote. “By balancing biology protection and economical viability, we're giving nan manufacture nan devices it needs to succeed, while preserving resources for early generations."  

“In shaping this compromise, we cautiously assessed nan full ecosystem connected to nan automotive sector, which will beryllium straight affected by nan regulation,” MEP Paulius Saudargas (EPP) said successful a statement.

Despite nan unit coming from Brussels to decarbonise and go much sustainable, nan European car manufacture welcomed today’s ballot but was cautious astir its effect connected heavy-duty vehicles. The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) claimed that motortruck and autobus manufacturers are astatine consequence of being unfairly held responsible.

“The regularisation places disproportionate ineligible and financial risks connected motortruck and autobus makers, holding them accountable for bodywork they neither nutrient nor put connected nan market. This undermines competitiveness astatine a clip erstwhile nan assemblage is nether tremendous pressure,” stated Sigrid de Vries, ACEA’s Director General.

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), nan largest web of biology citizens’ organisations, claimed that MEPs “caved nether nan pressure” of nan car industry, weakening nan Commission’s connection by ignoring nan usage of unsustainable materials, specified arsenic “forever chemicals” (PFAS), and nan request for less and smaller vehicles.  

The biology watchdog besides criticised nan attraction connected recyclability alternatively than steering much efforts into durability, reuse and repair strategies.

"EU lawmakers support ignoring nan halfway problem: nan ever-increasing size and number of cars is driving up worldly usage and biology impact,” said Fynn Hauschke, Senior Policy Officer for Circular Economy & Waste astatine nan EEB.

“Without tackling this inclination – and requiring manufacturers to creation vehicles to beryllium durable and repairable from nan outset – nan regularisation will not put nan assemblage connected a genuinely sustainable path," Hauschke added.

After today’s vote, talks betwixt nan Parliament and EU countries will commencement to finalise nan law.