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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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• EU contribution to global effort is to reduce GHG emissions by 80-95% (1990-level)

• Sectoral contributions

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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

2. 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

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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 EU754 Members Ministers from the 27 directly-elected EU Member States

Proposal in the EU legislative procedureTiming: 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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