The EU End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation (ELVR) has taken an important step towards final adoption. The provisional compromise agreed in December by European Parliament and Council negotiators was endorsed on Wednesday by both the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper) of the member states and Parliament’s Environment and Internal Market Committees. In the joint committee meeting, 96 members voted in favour of the compromise, with 20 voting against and four abstaining.
This clears the way for the formal adoption of the future regulation by the Council of the EU and by Parliament in plenary. Before that, however, the text must be translated from English into all other official EU languages and undergo legal and linguistic revision. This process generally takes around two months, meaning adoption could take place during the second quarter.
Ahead of the vote, Jens Gieseke, rapporteur for the environment committee of the European Parliament, highlighted what he believed to be the major achievements of the compromise text. The level of ambition in the European Commission’s original proposal had been "set somewhat too high" and had now been adjusted to "the operational and industrial realities"....
