One can’t keep possession of End-of-Life vehicle beyond 180 days w.e.f. 01.04.2025
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Central Government) has notified the Environment Protection (End-of-Life Vehicles) Rules, 2025. They shall come into force from 1st day of April, 2025.
The Rules apply all types of vehicles defined in clause (28) of section 2 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and includes an electric vehicle, battery operated vehicle, e-rikshaw or e-cart, but shall not apply to specified agricultural implements.
According to rules, every registered owner and bulk consumer must ensure that the vehicle is tested in accordance with the section 56 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and rule 52 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989.
End-of-Life Vehicles‖ means all vehicles which are no longer validly registered or declared unfit through Automated Fitness Centres or their registrations have been cancelled or due to an order of a Court of Law or are self-declared by the legitimate registered owner as a waste vehicle due to any circumstances as specified in these rules.
When a vehicle becomes an End-of-Life vehicle as per the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicles Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021, the registered owner or bulk consumer must deposit the End-of-Life vehicle at any of the manufacture/seller designated sales outlet or designated Collection Centre or Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility within a period of one hundred and eighty days from the date the vehicle becomes the End-of-Life vehicle.
It has been provided that no person shall keep in possession any End-of-Life vehicle beyond the period of 180 days as above.
A bulk consumer, (consumer having ownership of more than one hundred vehicles or State transport undertaking) is required to compulsorily obtain registration on the centralised online portal from the State Board. A bulk consumer must file an annual return in Form 2 on or before 30th June for the previous financial year on the centralised online portal about the details of vehicles it owns or possesses and the End-of-Life vehicles deposited at producer’s designated sales outlet or designated Collection Centre or Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility for scrapping of such End-of-Life vehicle.
A Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility shall undertake the activities relating to scrapping of End-of-Life vehicles in an environmentally sound and file quarterly returns on weight of End-of-Life vehicles received and weight of materials (category-wise) recycled or refurbished or sent for recycling or refurbishing etc.
Where any producer, Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility and bulk consumer fails to comply with the provisions relating to handling and scrapping of End-of-Life vehicles in environmentally sound manner under these rules, thereby causing loss, damage or injury to environment or public health, he shall be liable to pay environmental compensation.
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