The aim of this GD is to minimize the impact of end-of life vehicles on the environment by restricting the use of certain heavy metals in new vehicles from 1 July 2003. The objective is to ensure that 85 per cent of an end-of-life vehicle by weight will be recycled by the year 2006, increasing to 95 per cent by the year 2015. The purpose of these two GDs is prevention of WEEE and, in addition, the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of such waste so as to reduce the disposal of waste.