Law no. 2/2023 for fluorinated greenhouse gases.

This Law aims to reduce emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases, in order to achieve necessary environmental protection scopes. This Law defines: a) rules for import, export, processing, collection, recovery, recycling, destruction, dismantling, transportation, storage, placing on the market of fluorinated greenhouse gases and equipment that contains fluorinated greenhouse gases, or whose operation relies on such gases; b) the conditions for placing on the market of specific products and equipment that contain greenhouse gases fluorinated or whose operation relies on these gases; c) conditions for specific uses of fluorinated greenhouse gases; d) quantitative limits for placing hydrofluorocarbons on the market; e) requirements for licensing and authorization of entrepreneurs operating in the greenhouse gas market and dealing with fluorinated gasses and equipment containing these gases; f) requirements for training and certification of operators by accredited body for personal certification. The rules for import, export, processing, collection, recovery, recycling, destruction, dismantling, transportation, storage, placing on the market of fluorinated greenhouse gases and equipment that contains fluorinated greenhouse gases, or whose operation relies on such gases shall be implemented in accordance with the following principles: a) the principle of common, but differentiated responsibilities, according to which all parties of the Kigali Amendment of the Montreal Protocol, regardless of whether they are developing countries or not developed, take responsibility for the reduction of fluorinated greenhouse gases, according to the conditions of each country and within the new economic and political situation created; b) the principle of preventive care, according to which measures should be taken in the first place to anticipate, prevent or minimize human health and environmental problems deriving form the effects of harmful emissions, resulting or likely to result from human activity, which changes or deplete the ozone layer; c) the principle of efficiency, according to which policies and measures taken to reduce greenhouse gases fluoridation must be cost-effective, in such a way as to provide lowest global cost-benefit; d) the principle of sustainable development, according to which measures to protect the climate system from anthropogenic changes integrated into national development policies and programs should lead inti growing and sustainable economic and social development of the country; e) the principle of cooperation and national and international financing, according to which the efforts to reduced greenhouse gases can be done jointly and in coordination with other countries interested and, in addition to the state budget, to be supported by international or bilateral funding sources.
This Law is partially aligned with the Regulation (EU) No. 517/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on fluorinated greenhouse gases and repealing Regulation (EC) No. 842/2006. The text is divided into seven main thematic Chapters and a total of 24 articles. Titles of Chapters are as follows: I. General provisions; II. Prevention and control; III. Marketing and use control; IV. Reduction of the quantity of hydrofluorocarbons placed on the market; V. Reporting; VI. Licensing and authorization; and VII. Violations and administrative sanctions.
The Annex is also part of this publication (parameters, limits and technical lists).