End of life vehicles

End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Regulations

What the vehicle owner must do

The Waste Management (End-Of-Life Vehicles) Regulations, S.I. No. 282 of 2014, place an obligation on vehicle owners. Where the registered owner of an end-of-life vehicle intends to discard that vehicle as waste, he or she is required to deposit that vehicle at an authorised treatment facility for appropriate treatment and recovery. If the vehicle is not roadworthy, the services of a permitted waste collector must be used to transport the ELV to the facility.

An authorised treatment facility or ATF is a facility where the collection and storage and treatment of end-of-life vehicles may take place. Authorised treatment facilities must operate under a waste licence or waste facility permit, as appropriate, in accordance with Section 39 of the Waste Management Acts 1996, as amended, and associated regulations.

It is therefore an offence under waste management legislation to undertake the collection or storage or treatment of end-of-life vehicles without the appropriate authorisation

When seeking to dispose of an end-of-life vehicle, it is important that the registered owner of the vehicle ensures that they receive a Certificate of Destruction for the vehicle from the ATF. This is a statutory document, and cannot be copied or amended by any person.

The following authorised treatment facilities are available in County Clare:

• Thomas Connole,
  Address: Doctors Hill, Kilfenora, Co. Clare.
  Facility Address: Kilfenora Townland, Kilfenora, Co. Clare.
  Telephone:  (086) 8188008
  Permit Number: WFP-CE-09-0001-02
  Waste Types Handled: End of life vehicles
  Issue Date: 05-Dec-14
  Expiry Date: 05-Dec-19
  
  
• Eamon Conway, T/A Conway Car Distmantlers,
  Address: Clondanagh, Tulla, Co. Clare.
  Facility address: As Above
  Telephone: (065) 6835369 / (087) 8271271
  Permit number: WFP-CE-10-0002-01
  Waste types handled: Recovery of scrap metal and other metal waste / Dismantling or recovery of vehicles
  Issue date: 05-Nov-15
  Expiry date: 05-Nov-20 
  
  
• Kevin Marsh
  Address: Barbane, Broadford, Co Clare
  Facility address: Barbane, Broadford, Co Clare
  Telephone: (086) 8460517
  Permit number: WFP-CE-11-0003-02
  Waste types handled: Storage and treatment of end of life vehicles
  Issue date: 29-July-16
  Expiry date: 29-July-21
  
  
• Corofin Car Dismantlers Ltd.,
  Address: Roxton, Corofin, Co Clare.
  Facility address: Roxton, Corofin, Co Clare.
  Telephone: (065) 6837508
  Permit number: WFP-CE-12-0003-01
  Waste types handled: End of life vehicles
  Issue date: 27-Feb-2018
  Expiry date: 27-Feb-2023
  

Details of collectors authorised to collect end-of-life vehicles can be found through searching the National Waste Collection Permit Office NWCPO website section on waste collectors.