The objective of F-gas Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 is to protect the environment by reducing emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases.
Accordingly, it:
- establishes rules on containment, use, recovery and destruction of fluorinated greenhouse gases, and on related ancillary measures;
- imposes conditions on the placing on the market of specific products and equipment that contain, or whose functioning relies upon, fluorinated greenhouse gases;
- imposes conditions on specific uses of fluorinated greenhouse gases;
- establishes quantitative limits for the placing on the market of hydrofluorocarbons.