This Directive lays down measures which aim, as a first priority, at the prevention of waste from vehicles. Other measures of this Directive include the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of end-of life vehicles and their components so as to reduce the disposal of waste, as well as at the improvement in the environmental performance of all of the economic operators involved in the life cycle of vehicles and especially the operators directly involved in the treatment of end-of life vehicles.
