The latest announcement from the EC involves a proposal in draft form to phase down HFCs beginning in 2015 and continuing until 2030. According to Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, a Danish politician, “The proposal introduces a phasedown measure that from 2015 limits the total amount of the most significant group of F-gases — hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) — that can be sold in the EU and reduces this in steps to one-fifth of today’s sales by 2030.”
Included in the proposal is a ban on some HFCs in some new generations of equipment if a “viable alternative is readily available.”