Authorised treatment facilities15.

Notwithstanding regulation 12(2), a producer shall not be liable to meet the costs of treatment of a vehicle which he has placed on the market and which has become an end-of-life vehicle, where that vehicle is accepted by an authorised treatment facility which is not part of the system for the collection of vehicles referred to by the producer in the details he has submitted to the Secretary of State under regulation 10(2).