Lok Sabha Question No. 1216 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-28
Subject: Compliance of Environment Protection Rules, 2025 by ELVs
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Shri Shashank Mani

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1216

TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.07.2025

## Compliance of Environment Protection Rules, 2025 by ELVs

## 1216.   SHRI SHASHANK MANI:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) the objectives of the rules notified for End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs) and the manner in which the said rules have been designed to minimize waste and pollution associated with the disposal of such vehicles;
- (b) whether the Government has proposed any measures to ensure compliance with these rules among vehicle manufacturers and authorized scrapping facilities;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, including any monitoring mechanisms or penalties for noncompliance; and
- (d) whether there are any plans to promote sustainable practices and technologies in vehicle recycling and disposal to further enhance environmental protection and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI KIRTI VARDHAN SINGH)

(a)  to  (d): The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) notified the  Environment  Protection  (End-of-Life  Vehicles)  Rules, 2025  vide  S.O.  98(E)  dated 06 th January, 2025 for environmentally sound management of end-of-life vehicles. The rules are based on the principle of extended producer responsibility (EPR) where producers of vehicles are given mandatory EPR targets for scrapping of end-of-life vehicles. The rules cover all types of transport and non-transport vehicles, except agricultural tractor, agricultural trailer, combine harvester and power tiller.

Under the said rules, producers have been mandated to fulfil the obligation of EPR for the vehicles  that  the  producer  has  introduced  or  introduces  in  the  domestic  market,  including vehicles put to self-use to meet the specified scrapping targets. Producers have been provided annual targets for scrapping of end-of-life vehicles starting from FY 2025-26 for the vehicles put in the market 15 years ago in case of transport vehicles and 20 years ago in case of nontransport vehicles.

Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities (RVSFs) have been mandated to receive unfit vehicles or end-of-Life vehicles for scrapping and must carry out treatment, depolluting, dismantling, segregation and scrapping activities. They are required to send all the recovered and segregated materials from end-of-life vehicles to the registered recyclers or refurbishers, co-processors for recycling and  reuse  of  components  or  materials,  in  case  RVSF  does  not  have  recycling  or refurbishing facility. They are further required to send all non-recyclable or non-refurbishable materials  and  non-utilizable  hazardous  materials  to  Common  Hazardous  Waste  Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility authorised under Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016.

Producers  have  been  mandated  to  make  necessary  arrangements  to  receive  the  end-of-life vehicles  from  the  registered  owner at  any  designated  Collection  Centre,  including  its  sales outlet and upload such list of designated Collection Centres, sales outlets on its website and at a conspicuous place of its sales outlets and service centres. Designated Collection Centres by producers are required to handle the end-of-life vehicles in an environmentally sound manner and send them to RVSF.

Registered owner of the vehicle or bulk consumer is required to deposit the end-of-life vehicle at any of the producer's designated sales outlet or designated Collection Centre or RVSF within a  period  of  one  hundred and eighty  days from the date the  vehicle becomes the end-of-life vehicle.

Producers are required to obtain registration from CPCB through the centralised online portal. Bulk consumers and RVSFs have been mandated to obtain registration from concerned State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)/ Pollution Control Committee (PCC) through the centralised online portal

Under the rules, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in case of producer and SPCB/ PCC in case of RVSF and bulk consumer may, after giving an opportunity of being heard, suspend or cancel their registration, in case of violation or non-compliance of any provisions of these rules.

Returns in respect of fulfilment of the obligations provided under the rules are required to be filed by producer, bulk consumer and RVSF on centralised online portal.

CPCB has been mandated to undertake periodic inspection and audit of the producer to ensure that  such  facility  is  complying  with  the  requirement  under  the  provisions  of  these  rules. SPCB/PCC  has been  mandated  to  undertake  periodic  inspection  and  audit,  or  cause  to  be inspected by an authorised agency, of the RVSF to ensure compliance of the rules.

In case, producer or RVSF or bulk consumer who fails to comply with the provisions relating to handling and scrapping of end-of-life vehicles in environmentally sound manner under these rules  are  liable  to  pay  environmental  compensation  for  causing  loss,  damage  or  injury  to environment or public health. CPCB and concerned SPCB/PCC have been authorised to take necessary actions against violations or for non-fulfilment of obligations under these rules.

Implementation  Committee  has  been  constituted  vide  MoEF&CC  Order  dated  30.01.2025 under chairpersonship of Chairman,  CPCB,  with  representatives from  the  concerned Ministries/ Departments/  stakeholders representing producers, recyclers and scrapping facilities, for effective implementation of these Rules.

Further, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has formulated the Voluntary Vehicle Fleet Modernization Program (V-VMP) for creation of an ecosystem to phase out older unfit and polluting vehicles.

MoRTH  notified  the  Motor  Vehicles  (Registration  and  Functions  of  Vehicle  Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021 vide G.S.R. 653(E) dated 23.09.2021, and it prescribes for registration of  RVSF,  criteria  for  scrapping  vehicles,  scrapping  procedure,  audit  and  certifications  for functioning of RVSFs. MoRTH notified the Central  Motor  Vehicles  (Twenty  first  Amendment)  Rules,  2021  vide G.S.R 652(E) dated 23.09.2021, for recognition, regulation and control of automated testing stations,  the procedure for fitness testing of vehicles through automated equipment and the procedure for grant of Certificate of Fitness by automated testing stations. Further,  Steel  Scrap  Recycling  Policy,  2019,  notified  by  the  Ministry  of  Steel,  promotes environment  friendly  technologies  for  scientific  processing  and  recycling  of  ferrous  scrap generated from various sources and products, including end-of-life vehicles.

Further, CPCB has developed 'Guidelines for Environmentally Sound Facilities for Handling, Processing  and  Recycling  of  End-of-Life  Vehicles'  in  2023  to  carry  out  dismantling  and recycling of end-of-life vehicles in environmentally sound manner. The guidelines also specify sustainable technologies for de-pollution and dismantling of end-of-life vehicles.

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