31 Oct 2005
AS SOME expected, the European Parliament has
rejected the amendments to the F-Gas regulations
recently recommended by the EU environment
committee which could have seen HFC refrigerants
banned from 2010. The European Parliament also
rejected proposals to change the legal basis of the
regulations which would have allowed individual
member states to introduce their own selective HFC
sanctions and legalised the bans imposed by
countries like Denmark and Austria.