In July 2023, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation on circularity requirements for vehicle design and end-of-life vehicles (ELV regulation proposal).
The proposal describes various measures to increase the circularity of vehicles, including through vehicle design and an extended producer responsibility (EPR) system. In both the requirements on vehicle design (circularity strategy) as well in the requirements on EPR (fee modulation), adhesives are mentioned explicitly as detrimental to end-of-life vehicle circularity and therefore to be considered as potential impediments in the vehicle design process and in the EPR fee setting.