SWEDEN: ORDINANCE ON PRODUCERS' RESPONSIBILITY FOR VEHICLES The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.96.448. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: SWEDEN. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of the Environment. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): End-of-life vehicles. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Ordinance on Producers' Responsibility for Vehicles. 6. Description of content: It is the producers' responsibility to take back vehicles which they have produced in or imported to Sweden, at the end of their working life. Producers shall enable those who want to hand in their vehicles to do so and designate places where end-of-life vehicles can be returned. Producers shall ensure that material and components from vehicles are reused or recovered. They shall report the material, components and chemical products from the vehicle. 7. Objective and rationale: The following targets for reuse and recovery shall be attained: (1) At least 85 per cent no later than 2002; and (2) at least 95 per cent no later than 2015. 8. Relevant documents: None. 9. Proposed date of adoption: November 1997; Proposed date of entry into force: 1 January 1998. 10. Final date for comments: 19 February 1997. 11. Text available from: National enquiry point. (0023)

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