Institutional set-up, legal infrastructures, decision making and procedures to manage ODS

and F-Gases in the Czech Republic

Jana Borská

Jana.Borska@mzp.czMinistry of the Environment of the Czech Republic

Department of Air Protection

• Ministry of the Environment since 1 January 1990

• Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol – 30 December 1990 (Czechoslovakia)

– 1 January 1993 (Czech Republic)

• Act No 86/2002 Coll., Air protection• Act No 86/2002 Coll., Air protection– Ozone depleting substances (production, import, export)

– Recovery and leakage checks only with a licence by MoE

• Amendment in 2008– Implementation of EU Regulation on F-gases

Financial support

• SEF (State Environmental Fund)

• „Ozone account“ – money by producers and importers of

ODSs in previous years

• Sponsored projects

– Recovery and collection of ODS

(Halon bank of the Czech Republic)

– Measuring and monitoring of ozone – Measuring and monitoring of ozone

layer (ozone observatory in

Antarctica; monitoring centre in the

Czech Republic – Hradec Králové,

CHMI)

– Implementation of alternative

technology with zero ODP

(Broadcasting tower in Prague)

• GWP and TEWI were important

The Brewer spectrophotometer,Marambio Base; photo M. Janouch

• Recovery of ODS and F-gases from old RAC

system encouraged by Waste Act

Recovery of ODSs from old devices

• the back system of

electrical and

electronic devices.electronic devices.

• Since 1 February 2009 (Act Amendment)

• Lot of obligations for ODSs and F-gases were put

together

– Regular leakage checks, recovery, installation, service

– Recovery in the end of device life-cycle

Ozone layer and climate protection

– Certificates issued for both groups of substances

– Electronic national reporting: Integrated System of

Performance Reporting Requirements)

– sanctions

• 2012 (?) new Act on ODSs and F-gases, EU regulation

on ODSs implementation