Contents

• Foreword
• 1. Vision and policy
• 2. Profile and organization
• 3. ARN Recycling
• 4. ARN Auto Recycling
• 5. ARN Recycling Services
• 6. ARN Advisory
• 7. ARN Management Plan
• Appendix
  • Financial report
  • Notes to the 2010 financial report
  • Vehicle parc developments
  • Terms and abbreviations
  • Assurance report

Terms and abbreviations

ARN contract partners

Vehicle dismantling companies, collection companies, recycling companies and shredders with which ARN has entered into a contract

ARN Extranet

Online registration system via which vehicle dismantling companies can indicate the materials they wish to have removed, and collection companies can enter the quantities of materials collected. If the details match, a vehicle dismantling company can issue digital approval, and ARN will make the payment

ARN materials

Materials ARN has dismantled by vehicle dismantling companies for recycling, and for which a dismantling payment is made.

AVC

Foundation for Tackling Vehicle Crime, publicprivate partnership with the following participants: Ministry of Security and Justice, RDW, Centre for Vehicle Technology and Information; Board of Chief Commissioners; Public Prosecutor’s Office; Dutch Association of Insurers; ANWB; RAI association; BOVAG; Dutch Transport Operators Association and ARN (associate member)

AVI

Waste incineration installation

Battery Management Decree

Decree dating from 2008 that determines how producers (including manufacturers and importers) must organize the collection and processing of batteries, and describes the statutory requirements

BOVAG

Sector organization for businesses in the mobility sector

Car Dismantling Sector team

New name for the former ARN consultative body with provincial supervisory bodies. Participants are: all provinces, DCMR Rijnmond Environmental Service; Environmental Protection and Building Supervision Service; RDW, LIV, KIWA, Tax and Customs Administration, ARN, SGS, STIBA and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (formerly Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

CO2 footprint

Calculation of the burden imposed by a company or chain in terms of energy consumption and the environment, according to a range of indicators

End-of-Life Vehicle Directive

Eural code

Unique six-figure code according to which a waste substance is included in the European Waste Substances List (Eural) that contains about 800 different waste substances

End-of-Life Vehicles Management Decree

Decree dated May 24, 2002 for the implementation of European Directive no. 2000/53/ec (End-of-Life Vehicle Directive). This Decree lays down the recycling objectives that must be achieved, and in respect of which reporting is required. It was revised in 2007

Euro 5 standard

European emission standard for motor vehicles

FOCWA

Association of businesses in the vehicle body building sector

Framework Directive Waste Substances

European Directive 2008/98/ec that enables businesses to grant waste incineration furnaces the status of recovery operation, the so-called R(ecycling) 1 status

Hazardous waste

Waste that is harmful to man, animals or the environment. The European list of waste substances (Eural) indicates for each substance whether or not it is a hazardous substance

IARC

International Automobile Recycling Congress

IPO

Association of Provincial Authorities, umbrella organization for the twelve Dutch provinces

ISO 9001

International standard for quality management systems for organizations

ISO 14001

International standard for environmental protection systems for organizations

IVDM

Institute for Sustainable Mobility

KIWA

International testing and certification organization

KZD

KwaliteitsZorg Demontage (Quality Assurance Dismantling), a certified quality management system for the vehicle dismantling sector

Leakage flows

Illegal waste flows that arise if vehicle dismantling companies do not apply the correct Eural code or if scrap dealers do not supply their materials to shredder installations

LIV

National Vehicle Crime Information Centre

Mass balance

Describes the quantity of material entering and leaving a recycling system in a given period

Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment

New name following the merger of the Ministries of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and Transport, Public Works and Water Management by the Rutte Cabinet that took office on October 14, 2010

myBatbase

Online registration system for specifying quantities of batteries placed on the market by specific companies

myBattery

Balance Online system used by ARN and Stibat for indicating the numbers of batteries collected and processed by collectors and foreign processers

PCB’s

Polychlorobiphenyls, collective name for a large group of organic substances with a long residence time in the environment, and that can cause toxic fumes if incinerated

Producer responsibility

The financial and/or physical (co)responsibility of the partner who places a particular product on the market, to subsequently retrieve that product from the market in the waste phase, and to recycle it

PST

Post Shredder Technology

RAI

Association Sector association of manufacturers and importers of Motor Vehicles RDW Dutch registration authority for vehicles and controller of the basic registration of vehicles registered in the Netherlands

R(ecycling)-1 status

All waste incineration installations intended for processing solid urban waste and that comply with the required minimum energy efficiency can be awarded the status for useful application (R1)

Recycling percentage

Statutory obligation to achieve 95% useful application of the weight of a car, to be achieved by 2015; until that time the legal standard is 85% useful application

SafeBAT

Extensive national survey in 2011 into Battery Safety & standardization, second life (product reuse) and collection and recycling of high-voltage Lithium Ion batteries used in electrical vehicles

SGS

International inspection and verification organization

Shredder

Installation in which end-of-life vehicles etc. are ground, and the metal parts are recovered

Shredder residue

Materials left behind following the shredding of an end-of-life vehicle

Shredder waste

Residual material after the shredder has separated off the metals; shredder waste consists of a light fraction and a heavy fraction

STIBA

Sector organization for certified vehicle dismantling companies

Stibat

Implementation organization that coordinates the collection and recycling of used batteries in the Netherlands, on behalf of battery manufacturers

SYBAss

Superyacht Builders’ Association, sector organization for builders of superyachts

VW-SiCon® process

Process used in the PST facility for processing shredder waste into usable material using mechanical separation techniques, developed by Volkswagen AG and SiCon GmbH

Waste disposal fee fund

The fund in which waste disposal fee payments are reserved