FRANCE: The French affiliation representing refrigerant distributors, filling, recovering and reclamation businesses has described past week’s F-fuel vote as a “missed opportunity” to achieve Europe’s net-zero targets.
In a assertion the working day after Thursday’s F-gasoline revision vote, Paris-primarily based ADC3R regretted that the large vast majority of the amendments proposed to the vote of the F-fuel review have been rejected.
Laurent Guégan, chairman of Paris-primarily based ADC3R, reported: ”We are distressed by the outcome of the European Parliament’s vote on an unrealistic, unproductive F-Fuel assessment text that is antinomic to European weather aims as perfectly as ability and technological innovation.
“This textual content will not only threaten REpowerEU’s objectives by limiting the deployment of heat pumps, but it creates a programmed obsolescence of current refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump tools that will unnecessarily affect all sectors, in particular the residential, SME and small retail sectors, these kinds of as bars, restaurants, butchers, bakers, and many others,” he additional.
“At a moment when Europe is putting in area a binding legislative framework on repairability and availability of spare areas to keep away from the alternative of equipment, the European Parliament is voting an reverse textual content which goes towards the objectives of the round economic system.”
He also regretted that the proposals did not take into account the want for technician training in a sector “already shorter of manpower” and which “jeopardizes the safety and vitality efficiency” of some products.
“We hope that the Council and the Member States will acquire gain of the trialogue to locate the appropriate harmony and return to a pragmatic textual content by not relying on the wrong assumptions built so far,” the statement adds.