News that ‘End of Life’ (ELV) EU laws are set to be extended to motorcycles within the EU has led to several reports in the UK motorcycle media expressing concern and alarm about ELV regulations in the UK. The National Motorcyclists Council has clarified the situation – that currently the UK’s own End-of-Life Vehicle regulations do not apply to motorcycles and neither will the new proposals being debated in Brussels – unless the UK decides to independently revise domestic ELV regulations.
The new regulations will initially apply only to EU Member States and its EEA and EFTA partners, but despite this, there is a concern that longer term, they could be ‘ported’ into the UK as part of an update to inherited domestic ELV regulations.
End-of-life vehicles (ELVs) are motor vehicles categorised as waste, generally due to age or accident.
