{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-517/annex-III",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/517",
  "legislation_title": "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 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-517",
  "path": "annex/III",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "PLACING ON THE MARKET PROHIBITIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 11(1)\nProducts and equipmentWhere relevant, the GWP of mixtures containing fluorinated greenhouse gases shall be calculated in accordance with Annex IV, as provided for in point 6 of Article 2\nDate of prohibition\n1.\nNon-refillable containers for fluorinated greenhouse gases used to service, maintain or fill refrigeration, air-conditioning or heat-pump equipment, fire protection systems or switchgear, or for use as solvents\n4 July 2007\n2.\nNon-confined direct evaporation systems that contain HFCs and PFCs as refrigerants\n4 July 2007\n3.\nFire protection equipment\nthat contain PFCs\n4 July 2007\nthat contain HFC-23\n1 January 2016\n4.\nWindows for domestic use that contain fluorinated greenhouse gases\n4 July 2007\n5.\nOther windows that contain fluorinated greenhouse gases\n4 July 2008\n6.\nFootwear that contains fluorinated greenhouse gases\n4 July 2006\n7.\nTyres that contain fluorinated greenhouse gases\n4 July 2007\n8.\nOne-component foams, except when required to meet national safety standards, that contain fluorinated greenhouse gases with GWP of 150 or more\n4 July 2008\n9.\nAerosol generators marketed and intended for sale to the general public for entertainment and decorative purposes, as listed in point 40 of Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, and signal horns, that contain HFCs with GWP of 150 or more\n4 July 2009\n10.\nDomestic refrigerators and freezers that contain HFCs with GWP of 150 or more\n1 January 2015\n11.\nRefrigerators and freezers for commercial use (hermetically sealed equipment)\nthat contain HFCs with GWP of 2 500 or more\n1 January 2020\nthat contain HFCs with GWP of 150 or more\n1 January 2022\n12.\nStationary refrigeration equipment, that contains, or whose functioning relies upon, HFCs with GWP of 2 500 or more except equipment intended for application designed to cool products to temperatures below – 50 °C\n1 January 2020\n13.\nMultipack centralised refrigeration systems for commercial use with a rated capacity of 40 kW or more that contain, or whose functioning relies upon, fluorinated greenhouse gases with GWP of 150 or more, except in the primary refrigerant circuit of cascade systems where fluorinated greenhouse gases with a GWP of less than 1 500 may be used\n1 January 2022\n14.\nMovable room air-conditioning equipment (hermetically sealed equipment which is movable between rooms by the end user) that contain HFCs with GWP of 150 or more\n1 January 2020\n15.\nSingle split air-conditioning systems containing less than 3 kg of fluorinated greenhouse gases, that contain, or whose functioning relies upon, fluorinated greenhouse gases with GWP of 750 or more\n1 January 2025\n16.\nFoams that contain HFCs with GWP of 150 or more except when required to meet national safety standards\nExtruded polystyrene (XPS)\n1 January 2020\nOther foams\n1 January 2023\n17.\nTechnical aerosols that contain HFCs with GWP of 150 or more, except when required to meet national safety standards or when used for medical applications\n1 January 2018",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/517/annex/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:40.283176+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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