The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has notified the Environment Protection (End-of-Life Vehicles) Rules, 2025. The rules, will come into effect from April 1, 2025, and aim to promote waste reduction, material reuse, disposal, recycling, and management of End-of-Life (EOL) vehicles.
Key Highlights of the Notification:
- Responsibilities of Key Stakeholders Producers need to get registered with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) online portal and fulfil EPR obligations. Bulk Consumers (Organisations Owning 100+ Vehicles) are required to get registered with the State Pollution Control Board and file annual returns on vehicles owned or scrapped. The Collection Centre plays an important role as they are responsible for collecting End-of-Life vehicles and forwarding them to authorized RVSFs.
- Every producer is required to organize awareness campaigns to encourage the safe disposal of End-of-Life vehicles at the Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility or the designated Collection Centre.
- A centralized online portal will manage the Registration, data submission, Filing of returns, and Exchange of EPR certificates.
- Key Targets & Compliance: Stell recycling starts at 8 % for 2025-26 and reaches 18% by 2039-40. Producers must fulfil EPR targets based on the vehicle category. The portal will track all transactions and facilitate exchanges of EPR certificates.
Access the detailed notification from here: End-of-Life Vehicles Rules, 2025
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