Practical experience in ELVs management in Hungary

12-13 June 2008 INFRA workshop in Valencia

Practical experience in ELVs management

in Hungary

INFRA workshop in Valencia12 June 2008

Viktória Dezső – RTP expertwaste management inspector


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


§ 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)


§ 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


General facts (1)

• Suzuki – main manufacturer – 22000-25000 cars/year for domestic market

• Audi – mainly for export

• VW/Audi, GM/Opel, Ford, Denso – major component manufacturers

http://www.opel.nl/home.asp?lnbcode=home

http://www.ford.hu/


General facts (2)• Car fleet in 2005:

– 2.9 million vehicles - M1 category– approx. 230.000 van – N1 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


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 de-registration 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


Who does what? (2)• Municipality responsible for requiring the

dismantling certificate before issuing the de-registration 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


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 agreementhas to be registered by the Chief Environmental Inspectorate according to requirements set by the Hungarian End-of-life Vehicle Governmental Decree


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 co-ordinating company


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


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: de-registration belongs to the municipality dismantling certificate belongs to the

transportation inspectorate


De-registrationif 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 de-registration paper



if the number of disassembling vehicles more than 5 per day or 2000 tons per year => a preliminary EIA study should be presented

andthe licensing procedure is pursuant to the IPPC regulation



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.


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



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, non-hazardous waste, spare parts



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


Minimum technical criteria (4)

determined by the vehicle maintenance Minist’l decree

• indoor place with tiled floor for de-pollution 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


Indoor place for depollution activities


Storage place for spare parts


Treatment proceduredetermined 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


De-pollution activity (1)


De-pollution activity (2)


Other conditionsdetermined 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 above-mentioned tools and equipment

• ensuring the environmental technical conditions

• holding specific licence to treat hazardous waste from ELVs


Lifting facility and some hand tools


Personal requirementsdetermined 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


PermitContains:

- 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”


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

disposal 7 7 4

Source: http://kezelo.kvvm.hu/


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


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

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


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


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


Weaknesses of the Hungarian system

- difficult to get a dismantling permit because of high financial investment

- insufficient information on the non-registered (illegal) car disassembling plants (less and less)

- lack of civil servants to make a survey of the non-registered plants


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


Contact data

Postal address: Trans-Tisza Environmental, Nature

Protection adn Water InspectorateHU-4025 Debrecen, Hatvan u. 16.;

HungaryTel: +36 52 511 094Fax: +36 52 511 040e-mail: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]




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