For the purposes of this Directive:

1. 1.

   ‘vehicle’ means any vehicle designated as category M₁ or N₁ defined in Annex IIA to Directive 70/156/EEC, and three wheel motor vehicles as defined in Directive 92/61/EEC, but excluding motor tricycles;

2. 2.

   ‘end-of life vehicle’ means a vehicle which is waste within the meaning of Article 1(a) of Directive 75/442/EEC;

3. 3.

   ‘producer’ means the vehicle manufacturer or the professional importer of a vehicle into a Member State;

4. 4.

   ‘prevention’ means measures aiming at the reduction of the quantity and the harmfulness for the environment of end-of life vehicles, their materials and substances;

5. 5.

   ‘treatment’ means any activity after the end-of life vehicle has been handed over to a facility for depollution, dismantling, shearing, shredding, recovery or preparation for disposal of the shredder wastes, and any other operation carried out for the recovery and/or disposal of the end-of life vehicle and its components;

6. 6.

   ‘reuse’ means any operation by which components of end-of life vehicles are used for the same purpose for which they were conceived;

7. 7.

   ‘recycling’ means the reprocessing in a production process of the waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes but excluding energy recovery. Energy recovery means the use of combustible waste as a means to generate energy through direct incineration with or without other waste but with recovery of the heat;

8. 8.

   ‘recovery’ means any of the applicable operations provided for in Annex IIB to Directive 75/442/EEC;

9. 9.

   ‘disposal’ means any of the applicable operations provided for in Annex IIA to Directive 75/442/EEC;

10. 10.

    ‘economic operators’ means producers, distributors, collectors, motor vehicle insurance companies, dismantlers, shredders, recoverers, recyclers and other treatment operators of end-of life vehicles, including their components and materials;

11. 11.

    ‘F1hazardous substance’ means any substance which fulfils the criteria for any of the following hazard classes or categories set out in Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures8;

    1. (a)

       hazard classes 2.1 to 2.4, 2.6 and 2.7, 2.8 types A and B, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13 categories 1 and 2, 2.14 categories 1 and 2, 2.15 types A to F;

    2. (b)

       hazard classes 3.1 to 3.6, 3.7 adverse effects on sexual function and fertility or on development, 3.8 effects other than narcotic effects, 3.9 and 3.10;

    3. (c)

       hazard class 4.1;

    4. (d)

       hazard class 5.1;

12. 12.

    ‘shredder’ means any device used for tearing into pieces or fragmenting end-of life vehicles, including for the purpose of obtaining directly reusable metal scrap;

13. 13.

    ‘dismantling information’ means all information required for the correct and environmentally sound treatment of end-of life vehicles. It shall be made available to authorised treatment facilities by vehicle manufacturers and component producers in the form of manuals or by means of electronic media (e.g. CD-ROM, on-line services).