Description of the activity

Construction, operation and upgrade of facilities dismantling and depolluting complex end-of-life products, movable assets and their components for materials recovery or preparation for re-use of components.

The economic activity includes the dismantling of end-of-life products and movable assets and their components of any type, such as automobiles, ships and electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) for material recovery.

The economic activity does not include the treatment of batteries stemming from separate collection or removed during dismantling and depollution activities, and the demolition and wrecking of buildings and other structures (see Section 3.3 of this Annex).

The economic activities in this category could be associated with several NACE codes, in particular E38.31, E38.32 and E42.99 in accordance with the statistical classification of economic activities established by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006.

Technical screening criteria

Substantial contribution to the transition to a circular economy

1. The economic activity dismantles and depollutes separately collected waste, in state-of-the-art facilities, from complex end-of-life products, such as automobiles, electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) or ships, in order to:

(a) harvest parts and components that are suited for re-use;

(b) separate non-hazardous and hazardous waste fractions suited for material recovery including recovery of critical raw materials;