Comparative legal analysis finds persistent regulatory fragmentation in EU end-of-life vehicle policies, suggesting proposed reforms fail to bridge design and recycling stages.
Key Points
To assess whether European Union law on end-of-life vehicles successfully integrates life cycle thinking by binding vehicle design obligations to end-of-life management.
Conducted doctrinal and transposition legal analysis of the EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive and the proposed End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation.
Performed a comparative case study examining national legal implementation and producer responsibility mechanisms in Denmark and Sweden.
The existing EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive concentrates legal obligations primarily at the post-consumer waste stage rather than across the full product life cycle.
The proposed EU End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation strengthens certain upstream-downstream linkages but leaves regulatory fragmentation largely unresolved.