Who runs the COD system?

[SambaS]

It's getting on my tits. I'm going to get them to change the rules so it can be reversed.

[OwdChina]

Ehh....the what???

[SambaS]

End of life vehicles. I keep getting told by scrapyards that they cant sell a car as a Certificate of Destruction has been issued. It's irreversible and it has scrapyards scared enough to adhere to it. Therefore must be changed.

[Junkman]

And how do you want to change it?

Also, the scrapyards can sell them, since that's exactly what they do when they crush them and ship them to China.

They just don't want to sell them to you. Besides, what good is a vehicle to you that you can't register anyway?

[SambaS]

That under certain circumstances the COD can be reversed and said car can be sold and put back on the road.

[Junkman]

The rule that you can't do that has been put deliberately in place to comply with a EU directive.

It can only be reversed if the UK leaves the EU, and even then it will be next to impossible, because the new car lobby is richer than you are.

 

Sorry for demolishing your dreams.

[SambaS]

So ultimately the EU piss hats in Brussels have the final say? Well this might turn out harder than I thought.

[SambaS]

Who administers the system?

[Junkman]

  SambaS said:

So ultimately the EU piss hats in Brussels have the final say? Well this might turn out harder than I thought.

 

Of course they have. Since 1973 over 90% of the British legislation is "Made in Brussels".

[Junkman]

  SambaS said:

Who administers the system?

 

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/

[SambaS]

I've a mate with a fully licensed ELV disposal center. Read: scrapyard. I have never had trouble buying cars from him. These new fangled TV advertised cash for scrap uber yards all seem to get cars in under a hugely different set of rules. I fully understand their £000,000pa turnovers make me, rare cars, nostalgia, sense, or compassion absolutely irrelevant. But still if the rule was different there would be chance. EDIT: No cash for scrap. Now a cheque for scrap

[SambaS]

These, I have heard a lot about. Their legislations have almost completely killed off the old shool scrapyard in the last decade or more.

  Junkman said:

  SambaS said:

Who administers the system?

 

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/

EDIT i guess theyve been killing of scrapyards since their inception

[flat4alfa]

[OwdChina]

Don't worry too much, after the attempted govt theft from Cyprus bank accounts i think the EU is goin tits up anyway. About time.

[SambaS]

Hurrah to that

[autofive]

  Junkman said:

  SambaS said:

So ultimately the EU piss hats in Brussels have the final say? Well this might turn out harder than I thought.

 

Of course they have. Since 1973 over 90% of the British legislation is "Made in Brussels".

 

exactly 90% or roughly 90% ????

[red5]

  autofive said:

  Junkman said:

  SambaS said:

So ultimately the EU piss hats in Brussels have the final say? Well this might turn out harder than I thought.

 

Of course they have. Since 1973 over 90% of the British legislation is "Made in Brussels".

 

exactly 90% or roughly 90% ????

 

'over' = more than. Fyi.

 

[autofive]

any proof of that are was that percentage just plucked from the air?

[George-Roper]

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Yes, kill the EU, then we can rely on our nice and honest national politicians to fight our corner. And sometimes we just might have to call in the IMF, or suffer a bit of a dictatorship or summat. Clever stuff.

[Morgan84]

You can buy parts from a car with a COD, but you 'can' buy the car if you 'theoretically' bought the engine in one visit, then another other parts. The car could leave the UK, and be registered on the continent ( don't think it would work in Ireland ) and registered there. The licencing agencies there would have to have the vehicles identity numbers, and would no doubt check them with the manufacturer who will not know of its destruction; if the said vehicle had any useful info ie date of registration etc, that may be helpful. It then comes 'home' and gets re registered, and as old records will have been destroyed, but it exists in its country of registration, it would get registered here as if an import ( I think )

 

A lot of hard work I know, but if it was a car of great meaning to someone, I'm sure it would be worth doing - more than one way to cook an egg !

[Guest]

  Quote

...Since 1973 over 90% of the British legislation is "Made in Brussels".

 

The technical term for that is utter rubbish. About 15% of legislation in the UK has an EU element. Don't listen to that knobber Farage. He tells mahoosive porkies every time that he opens his mouth.

[Guest]

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2012/06/13/europeanization-of-public-policy/

 

  Quote

We looked first at studies on Germany, the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands and Denmark. Others on France, Austria and Finland followed. The striking finding is that most of these studies showed rather low shares of Europeanized national legislation: 15.5 per cent for the UK, 14 per cent for Denmark, 10.6 per cent for Austria, between 3 and 27 per cent for France, between 1 and 24 per cent for Finland, yet 39.1 per cent for Germany.

 

The article goes on to make the sensible point that simply measuring the EU element in legislation isn't a very meaningful method of analysis in any event. In some fields, the EU has a big impact; in others, it has none, and there are various points in between. OMFG! Autoshite in "real world actually a bit complicated and nuanced" shocka!

[SambaS]

I'll start with the environment agency. Thanks.

[Rod/b]

Do you seriously expect any Government agency to change policy because you write to them moaning that you can't buy and register a scrap vehicle?

[SambaS]

yes

[Rod/b]

Ok. What are you smoking?

[trigger]

Some of the threads on here get more and more random every week.

[Rod/b]

Does anyone know the address for the government? They keep making me pay "tax" and I find this most inconvenient. I'm going to get this changed.

[Mr Lobster]

  trigger said:

Some of the threads on here get more and more pointless every week.

 

Fixed that for you trig

 

Dear Government,

 

Its taking ages working out how much VAT I have charged and how much I can reclaim and to be honest I don't really have the time and stuff and anyway I'd rather spend the free time doing something like making up random facts and figures and spending time doing VAT returns isn't really working for me plus I have to send you a load of money which, to be fair I could spend on all sorts of old shit otherwise so I'd like you to change the VAT system so we just call it quits. Plus it'd save you having to employ a load of tax inspectors and the like.

 

So if you can let me know as soon as you've changed it that'd be great.

 

Cheers.