Practical experience in ELVs management in Hungary INFRA

Practical experience in ELVs management in Hungary INFRA workshop in Valencia 12 June 2008 Viktória Dezső – RTP expert waste management inspector 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Outline • Hungarian legal framework • General overview • How the system works • Permitting procedure (minimum technical criteria and content of a permit) • Waste Information System • Concluding remarks 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

§ Hungarian regulations (1) § As implementation of the 2000/53/EC Directive in Hungary • End-of-life Vehicles Governmental Decree (No. 267/2004 recently modified by 286/2006 governmental decree) Further regulations • Hazardous Waste Governmental Decree (No. 98/2001) • Technical and personal conditions of vehicle maintenance activities Ministerial Decree (No. 1/1990) • Administrative tasks of public traffic and issuing and withdrawing the official certificates Ministrerial Decree (No. 35/2000) • European Waste Catalogue Ministerial Decree (No. 16/2001) 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

§ Hungarian regulations (2) § Specific characteristics of the legislation: • accessibility of the ELV processing facility: 50 km on public roads • consideration: ELV as non-hazardous waste in certain specified cases – such as during transportation • from the acceptance place to the recipient site • from the recipient site to the dismantler 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

General facts (1) • Suzuki – main manufacturer – 2200025000 cars/year for domestic market • Audi – mainly for export • VW/Audi, GM/Opel, Ford, Denso – major component manufacturers 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

General facts (2) • Car fleet in 2005: – 2. 9 million vehicles - M 1 category – approx. 230. 000 van – N 1 category • approx. 220. 000 new cars + • 3. 000 to 30. 000 second-hand cars are registered a year • Car fleet on average is 11 years old • Scrapped vehicles in 2005 (not official data!): – 140. 000 -150. 000 cars – 10. 000 -12. 000 vans 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Who does what? (1) • Producer and importer responsible for preventing waste generation; eco-design and take-back obligation from the last owner of the vehicle; establishing collecting system; providing information; registration obligation • Last owner responsible for getting the deregistration certificate; bringing the vehicle to an authorised collector or dismantling site • Collector and dismantler responsible for accepting all end-of-life vehicles; issuing the dismantling certificate; collecting and providing data 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Who does what? (2) • Municipality responsible for requiring the dismantling certificate before issuing the deregistration certificate • Environmnetal Inspectorates responsible for issuing permits for collectors/dismantlers and treatment facilities; monitoring the treatment facilities; collecting data • Transportation Inspectorates responsible for issuing permits for dismantlers; providing the dismantling certificate for dismantlers or collectors; monitoring the dismantling sites; collecting data 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Who does what? (3) • Co-ordinating company can be established by the producers &importers in order to take over the producer’s (or importer’s) responsibility based on agreement has to be registered by the Chief Environmental Inspectorate according to requirements set by the Hungarian End-oflife Vehicle Governmental Decree 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Who does what? (4) • Treatment network system – new term! – can be established by recipients and/or dismantlers based on contracts – can take over the producer’s (or importer’s) responsibility based on agreement – the establishment and operating rules are governed by the conditions for coordinating company 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Current information • 32 registered producers and importers • No registered co-ordinating company • 2 registered treatment network system for end-of-life vehicles • 6 brand groups haven’t joined to take-back system, independetly organising it (Ford, Mazda, Porsche, Volvo, Daimler Chrysler, BMW ) Source: Chief Inspectorate http: //www. orszagoszoldhatosag. gov. hu 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Licensing procedure (1) a vehicle withdrawn from service is hazardous waste => the permit (collection/dismantling) is issued according to the hazardous waste licensing procedure (90 days procedure) But! the withdrawal procedure: Ø de-registration belongs to the municipality Ø dismantling certificate belongs to the transportation inspectorate 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

De-registration if someone would like to de-register a car, which means withdraw from service the person 1. has to look for an authorised collector or disassembling site 2. a dismantling certificate will be issued in case the car was left there 3. has to go to the municipality with the certificatie to get the final deregistration paper 2008 INFRA 12 -13 June workshop in Valencia

Licensing procedure (2) if the number of disassembling vehicles more than 5 per day or 2000 tons per year => a preliminary EIA study should be presented and the licensing procedure is pursuant to the IPPC regulation 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Licensing procedure (3) Before the permit is issued a site-visit is taken place to check and control whether the conditions are provided as it was presented in the documents asking for permit. 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Minimum technical criteria (1) determined by the ELV Govern’l decree Recipient and storage sites: • waterproof surface with precipitation and discharge collection facility + with oil skimmer equipment • appropriate water and precipitation purifying facility 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Minimum technical criteria (2) determined by the ELV Govern’l decree Treatment plant: • waterproof surface with discharge collection facility + with oil skimmer equipment • designated central collection site within the treatment plant to collect and store separately the hazardous, nonhazardous waste, spare parts 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Minimum technical criteria (3) determined by the ELV Govern’l decree Designated central collection site should be created in a way to store separately at least: • • • spare parts contaminated with oil accumulators filters condensers containing PCB/PCT fuel, different types of oils, other liquids used tyres according to the fire prevention rules 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Minimum technical criteria (4) determined by the vehicle maintenance Minist’l decree • indoor place with tiled floor for depollution activities • indoor place for cleaning the dismantled main parts • separate storage place for the reusable main parts, spare parts and other pieces • designated central waste collection site according to the environm’l requirements 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Indoor place for depollution activities 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Storage place for spare parts 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Treatment procedure determined by the ELV Govern’l decree should contain: • removing the accumulators and liquid gas tanks • removing cartridge of air bags • removing fuel, different types of oils, coolant and any other types of liquid • removing accurately the components containing mercury 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

De-pollution activity (1) 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

De-pollution activity (2) 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Other conditions determined by the vehicle maintenance Minist’l decree • necessary lifting facilities, specific tools, cleaning equipment and testing & calibrating appliances • producer’s information on dismantling process and technical instruction of using the abovementioned tools and equipment • ensuring the environmental technical conditions • holding specific licence to treat hazardous waste from ELVs 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Lifting facility and some hand tools 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Personal requirements determined by the vehicle maintenance Minist’l decree • car mechanic education or car electrical mechanic, plus carrosserie mechanic • specific quality control certificate for verifying spare parts for further use • at least secondary education on environmental field for leader position or to employ someone with adequate education 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Permit Contains: - max. number of the end-of-life vehicles, which can be disassembled a year (in tons & in units) - the technology of the disassembling procedure - technical and personal conditions - registration and reporting requirements - conditions set up by the competent authorities such as the public health and the “disaster recovery” 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Number of issued valid permits at national level Treatment/Waste code EWC 160104* EWC 160106 Both collector 90 133 62 transporter 35 103 24 pretreatment 97 104 49 recovery and recycling 65 30 23 7 7 4 disposal Source: http: //kezelo. kvvm. hu/ 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Number of issued valid permits At regional level: • 1 authorised collectors • 6 authorised pre-treaters • 7 authorised dismantling sites for both EWC 160104* and EWC 160106 Source: Chief Inspectorate http: //kezelo. kvvm. hu 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Administrative fee Waste management activities subject to administrational fees amount (in euro) from 23 July 2007 Licensing procedure for waste collection 288 Licensing procedure for waste transporation 384 Licensing procedure for waste pre-treatment 480 Licensing procedure for waste storage 576 Licensing procedure for recycling and recovery 1272 Licensing procedure for waste disposal 1272 Licensing procedure for waste export, import and transit transportation 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia 512

Waste Information System (1) • New system was introduced in 2004 • Based on waste return (just like the income tax return system) • Report should be sent to the regional inspectorates once a year except collectors and treaters » quarterly • Deadline: 1 March each year • Obligor: each party who produces, collects, transports, treats waste 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Waste Information System (2) Specific reporting obligations from 2007 for dismantlers & treaters: » obliged to inform both the transportation authority and the environmental inspectorate on – taking over, dismantling end-of-life vehicles and delivering the different kind of waste using the special report format 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Strength of the Hungarian system - strict and well-defined regulation containing both the technical and personal requirements, - determined obligations concerning the registration and reporting tasks, - the transportation authority does not issue a permit for the vehicle disassembling plants until they have got the permit from the environmental inspectorate 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Weaknesses of the Hungarian system - difficult to get a dismantling permit because of high financial investment - insufficient information on the nonregistered (illegal) car disassembling plants (less and less) - lack of civil servants to make a survey of the non-registered plants 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Concluding remarks • licencing process is quite complex including three other competent authorities • technical and personal requirements seem to be high for a small dismantling plant • administrative fee is high for a small dismantling plant 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Contact data Postal address: Trans-Tisza Environmental, Nature Protection adn Water Inspectorate HU-4025 Debrecen, Hatvan u. 16. ; Hungary Tel: +36 52 511 094 Fax: +36 52 511 040 e-mail: viktoria_dezso@hotmail. com 12 -13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

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