ShareFrance: release of the « F-Gas » regulation in the Official Journal of the French Republic (OJFR)
The legislative act no. 2015-1790 of December 28 2015 on specific refrigerants and fluorinated greenhouse gases was published in the Official Journal of the French Republic (OJFR).
The legislative act no. 2015-1790 of December 28, 2015 on specific refrigerants and fluorinated greenhouse gases was published in the Official Journal of the French Republic (OJFR) on December 30, 2015.
Concerning specific refrigerants and fluorinated greenhouse gases, it transposes the UE Regulation no. 517/2014 - commonly referred to as the "F-gas" Regulation - (enacted on January 1st 2015) into French law.
This legislative act updates the references to the legislation within the Environmental Code. As such, it introduces the concept of tonne of CO2 eq. for HFCs with new provisions regarding leakage checking.
This legislative act specifies several provisions: sales conditions monitoring for refrigerant systems, arrangements for the recovery and processing of refrigerant loss, the implementation of a regulatory framework for making the provisions on the operation sheet easier, which is compulsory for handling refrigerants.
Following this legislative act, the publication of several orders is then expected late February 2016. They will define the leakage inspection process, the merging of the operation sheet and the waste tracking document (BSD), the certification baseline of approved bodies, the register format for precharged equipment sales, as well as the update of training schemes (ability certificate). Once published, all these legislative texts will establish the "F-gas regulatory Package". The French Ministry of Environment has scheduled an information meeting on June 7, 2016 on this particular issue in their Paris-based premises as part of the “Mardis de la DGPR” (i.e. Direction générale de la prévention des risques: General Directorate for Risk Prevention).
Concerning specific refrigerants and fluorinated greenhouse gases, it transposes the UE Regulation no. 517/2014 - commonly referred to as the "F-gas" Regulation - (enacted on January 1st 2015) into French law.
This legislative act updates the references to the legislation within the Environmental Code. As such, it introduces the concept of tonne of CO2 eq. for HFCs with new provisions regarding leakage checking.
This legislative act specifies several provisions: sales conditions monitoring for refrigerant systems, arrangements for the recovery and processing of refrigerant loss, the implementation of a regulatory framework for making the provisions on the operation sheet easier, which is compulsory for handling refrigerants.
Following this legislative act, the publication of several orders is then expected late February 2016. They will define the leakage inspection process, the merging of the operation sheet and the waste tracking document (BSD), the certification baseline of approved bodies, the register format for precharged equipment sales, as well as the update of training schemes (ability certificate). Once published, all these legislative texts will establish the "F-gas regulatory Package". The French Ministry of Environment has scheduled an information meeting on June 7, 2016 on this particular issue in their Paris-based premises as part of the “Mardis de la DGPR” (i.e. Direction générale de la prévention des risques: General Directorate for Risk Prevention).