The EU End of Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive 2000/53/EC is at the heart of 3 infringement procedures for which the EU Commission announced new steps in January. The EU institution stated that the proceedings against Austria & Germany related to the contents of measures taken to implement the Directive, while France had yet to complete transposition of the legislation into national law. This action was announced in a week when the EC reported further steps in a number of cases over infringements of Community environmental law. Although the directive had been considered fully implemented in Germany through the End of Life Vehicle Act of 2002, the EU's in-depth analysis of the legislation had concluded that the act did not transpose the directive correctly, "leaving a number of gaps which reduce the directive's intended environmental benefits."
