Fluorinated gases and ozone-depleting substances: Council and Parliament reach agreement

The Council and Parliament negotiators reached a provisional political agreement on phasing down substances that cause global warming and deplete the ozone layer.

This provisional agreement finalises negotiations on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) and confirms an informal agreement reached in June on ozone-depleting substances (ODSs).

While existing EU legislation has already limited the use of F-gases significantly, the new rules would further reduce their emission into the atmosphere and contribute to limiting the global temperature increase, in line with the Paris Agreement.