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Revision of the F-gas Regulation No. 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases in the European Union (EU) started in October 2010. The European Commission has just sent a draft proposal to its Member States. It will be made public at the beginning of December.
Revision of the F-gas Regulation No. 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases in the European Union (EU) started in October 2010. The European Commission has just sent a draft proposal to its Member States. It will be made public at the beginning of December.
The aim is to gradually phase down HFC consumption using the 2008-2011 consumption figure as a baseline. The document proposes a reduction to 93% of this figure by 2017, 63% by 2020, 45% by 2023, 31% by 2026, 24% by 2029 and 21% by 2030, which is similar to the phase-down objective laid down in the proposal to the Montreal Protocol put forward by the USA, Canada and Mexico.
For that purpose, several measures would be taken:
. phase-out of HFCs with GWPs over 2150 in refrigerators, freezers and in commercial refrigeration (2015-2016);
. ban on HFCs in pre-charged equipment (2017-2020);
. extension of the regulation to refrigerated trucks, trailers and reefers;
. limits of charges for application of the regulation calculated in CO2 equivalent emissions for each refrigerant (not the same charge for each refrigerant).
EU member states will now send their comments to the European Commission. The IIR, already involved in an advisory group set up by the Commission, will also send its comments at the end of the year. The final proposal will then be submitted to the European Parliament in 2013.
The aim is to gradually phase down HFC consumption using the 2008-2011 consumption figure as a baseline. The document proposes a reduction to 93% of this figure by 2017, 63% by 2020, 45% by 2023, 31% by 2026, 24% by 2029 and 21% by 2030, which is similar to the phase-down objective laid down in the proposal to the Montreal Protocol put forward by the USA, Canada and Mexico.
For that purpose, several measures would be taken:
. phase-out of HFCs with GWPs over 2150 in refrigerators, freezers and in commercial refrigeration (2015-2016);
. ban on HFCs in pre-charged equipment (2017-2020);
. extension of the regulation to refrigerated trucks, trailers and reefers;
. limits of charges for application of the regulation calculated in CO2 equivalent emissions for each refrigerant (not the same charge for each refrigerant).
EU member states will now send their comments to the European Commission. The IIR, already involved in an advisory group set up by the Commission, will also send its comments at the end of the year. The final proposal will then be submitted to the European Parliament in 2013.