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Status of the PFAS Restriction proposal

A brief overview of the PFAS Restriction proposal.

When & Where

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Mon, 10/07/2024, 13:15 - 13:25

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Room St. Petersburg, NCC Ost, Level 2

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Details

  • Format:

    Lecture

  • Language:

    English

Session description

The presentation aims at showing what is the PFAS Restriction proposal, how it started and what is its aim, but also its potential impact on the Refrigeration, Air conditioning and Heat Pump sector.

It also includes some key takeaways on the current political context, the tentative timeline of the Restriction proposal, and how the process works at the level of the European chemicals agency. Indeed, the proposal, launched by five European countries, is to ban the manufacture, the placing on the market and the use of all 10 000 PFAS substances. Some time limited and time unlimited derogations are envisaged but do not cover the RACHP sector as a whole. In case of such a ban, the majority of fluorinated gases and all fluoropolymers would have to be replaced in products, which not p ...

Speaker

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Manon Roussel
Policy manager

Moderator

Vincent de Badereau
Vincent de Badereau
Senior Policy Advisor at EPEE