art_13__para_5

5. From 1 January 2032, the use of fluorinated greenhouse gases listed in Annex I, with a global warming potential of 750 or more, for the maintenance or servicing of stationary refrigeration equipment, with the exclusion of chillers, shall be prohibited. The prohibition referred to in the first subparagraph shall not apply to military equipment or equipment intended for applications designed to cool products to temperatures below – 50 °C or equipment intended for applications designed to cool nuclear power stations. The prohibition referred to in the first subparagraph shall not apply to the following categories of fluorinated greenhouse gases: reclaimed fluorinated greenhouse gases listed in Annex I with a global warming potential of 750 or more used for the maintenance or servicing of existing stationary refrigeration equipment, with the exclusion of chillers, provided that containers containing those gases have been labelled in accordance with Article 12(7); recycled fluorinated greenhouse gases listed in Annex I with a global warming potential of 750 or more used for the maintenance or servicing of existing stationary refrigeration equipment, with the exclusion of chillers, provided such gases have been recovered from such equipment; such recycled gases shall only be used by the undertaking which carried out their recovery as part of maintenance or servicing or by the undertaking for which the recovery was carried out as part of maintenance or servicing.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.