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CoD and chips

Home » Number Plate News » CoD and chips If you thought cod and chips was a tasty teatime treat, then think again, as that's not all it is.

Summer 2004 saw DVLA begin the roll out of the Certificates of Destruction (CoD) scheme to the salvage industry. This scheme stems from a European Directive to reduce the impact on the environment of disposing of vehicles which have reached the end of their lives. These vehicles should be presented to Authorised Treatment Facilities (ATFs) where they will be properly dismantled and de-polluted prior to scrapping. ATFs alone are able to issue the CoD to the person presenting the vehicle. The ATF will notify DVLA electronically via the internet when a vehicle is scrapped. There is a bonus for any member of the public who scraps their vehicle in this way. They will know that they have disposed of the vehicle in an environmentally friendly manner – 85% of the mass of the vehicle must be recycled. They will also be issued with a paper certificate as a receipt for the vehicle. DVLA’s vehicle record will be annotated to show the vehicle has reached the end of its life and the obligation on the keeper to make a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN declaration) will be removed, as will the risk of prosecution for continuous registration offences.

There are likely to be up to 2000 ATFs operating in England, Wales and Scotland, which will be regulated by the Environment Agency (EA) or the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). DVLA is notified by EA and SEPA as to which businesses have become licensed ATFs. These ATFs will then be invited join the CoD scheme and establish an electronic link with DVLA.

Article by Andrew Thomas, taken from DVL Today - Issue 27 - Reproduced under Crown Copyright

Tue, 1 Jun 2004