Draft Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations NI 2015

The Department of Environment are proposing a draft set of Regulations for Northern Ireland (“NI”) which are being made as a result of Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases and repealing Regulation (EC) No 842/2006 (“the EU F-gas Regulation”) which came into operation in January 2015. It aims to reduce the emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases (“F-gases”), which have a significant impact on climate change. The new draft Regulations are to be called the Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (“the draft NI F-gas Regulations”).