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Recent Proposal of the
European Commission for a
new F-gas Regulation
XV European Conference – Milano, 5 June 2013

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Source: DPA, 2013

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Why?
• Climate Change implies costs to society and is
endangering economic growth
Source: Munich Re

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Power Sector
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Non CO2 Other Sectors
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Non CO2 Agriculture
• EU contribution to
global effort is to
reduce GHG
emissions by 80-
95% (1990-level)
• Sectoral
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 this corresponds to
ca. 70 million tonnes
of CO2 less than
today`s F-gas
emissions!

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• PRG
Scenarios EU F-gas emissions
With existing '2006 F-gas legislation'
Without existing F-gas legislation
Additional potential
Source: Schwarz et al., 2011

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Additional reduction potential
 Additional containment measures have low
emission reduction potential
 Avoiding use of F-gases can bring large
and cheap emission reductions. Climate
friendly alternatives that are safe and
energy-efficient exist in many sectors.

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Proposal new EU F-gas Regulation
 Building on the existing Regulation: Containment,
Recovery, Labelling, Reporting, Bans
 New prohibitions on F-gas equipment/products
 "Phase-down" of HFCs

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 Explicit prohibition of unnecessary emissions
(venting…), extension of emission prevention to
persons carrying out installation, maintenance,
decommissioning etc..
 Certification for persons carrying out all activities
on mobile AC equipment (not only recovery)
 Leakage checks also for refrigerated trucks and
trailers
 Use of CO2eq-weighted thresholds
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Some Changes (II)
 Record (switchgear, trucks & trailers) keeping
extended
 Emissions data: Member States to use observed
leakage rates to calculate emissions based on
either (i) national database, or (ii) survey
 Extension of recovery: all mobile equipment,
switchgear
 Training & certification to cover alternative
technologies
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Bans
 existing ones fully maintained
 exemptions possible  ecodesign requirements
concluding that lifecycle CO2 emissions are lower
compared to alternative technologies
 flexibility clause to include new types of products
and equipment or to exempt others for technical,
economic or safety reasons

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The role of new bans in the proposal
1. To address non-HFCs/by-production
• SF6 in magnesium die-casting
• HFC-23 by-production
1. To support and steer the phase-down:
"sign posts"
• Fire protection with HFC-23
• Retrofitting: Ban of HFCs>2500 for maintenance
of refrigeration equipment from 2020 ("Service
ban")
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3. To safeguard integrity of phase-down
• Pre-charging of non-hermetically sealed equipment
• Sealed equipment (are also "signposts"!)
– Domestic fridges (2015)
– Fridges/freezers in retail/food service (2017/2020)
– Movable room air conditioners (2020)
All bans would apply in the same way to imported and EU-
produced equipment!
The role of new bans in the proposal (ii)
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Phase-Down of bulk HFC
•Reduce current demand of HFCs
in 3 year steps to around 20% by
2030
•Freeze in 2015, first step in 2016
•Tailend for applications where there are no alternatives today
Reduction of HFC supply
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Impacts
Environment: By 2030 reduction of 70 Mt CO2
eq. or 60% compared to 2005. Proposal fully
consistent with EU Low Carbon Economy Roadmap
Economic: GDP impacts – 0.009%. Conservative
estimation based on today's costs of alternatives
Social: -16.000 to +7000 jobs. No
safety/occupational/health risks. No dynamic
effects included

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EU F-gas proposal next step: Adoption
European Parliament Council of the EU
754 Members Ministers from the
27
directly-elected EU Member States
Proposal in the EU legislative procedure
Timing: Aiming for 2014

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EU proposal in international context
 Increased EU demand for alternative technologies likely to
spur innovation and economies of scale also in other
markets, hence reducing costs of a global phase-down of
HFCs
 Show leadership in reducing the emissions gap
 We are actively exploring ways of partnering for ambition in
this area with like-minded countries
 EU has made a submission to the UNFCCC for a Decision on
phasing down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol

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Thank you !
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