How Automakers Can Buy ELV EPR Certificates
Automakers buy End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) certificates from Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities (RVSFs) through the centralised Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) EPR portal. Under the Environment Protection (End-of-Life Vehicles) Rules 2025, RVSFs generate certificates from the steel recovered when vehicles are scrapped. Automakers register on the portal, receive an annual steel-recovery target […]
ELV Rules 2025 and 2026 Proposed Amendment Draft for OEMs
India’s Environment Protection (End-of-Life Vehicles) Rules, 2025, effective 1 April 2025, place Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on vehicle producers. The rules require automakers to scrap a share of the steel equivalent of vehicles sold 15 to 20 years earlier and to acquire EPR certificates against that target. A draft amendment dated 27 March 2026 allows […]