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UK: Guidance on using and trading fluorinated gas and ozone-depleting substances: rules and processes if the UK leaves the EU with no deal –
- 517/2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases
- 1005/2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer
- produce, supply, import, export or use bulk F gas or ODS
- manufacture or import equipment containing F gas or ODS
- commercial, industrial and transport refrigeration and air conditioning systems
- other products containing F gas or ODS
- restrict ODS
- use the same schedule as the EU to phase down HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons, the most common type of F gas) by 79% by 2030 relative to a 2009 to 2012 baseline
- limited to 63% of the baseline in 2019 and 2020
- reducing to 45% of the baseline in 2021