2021 HFC consumption limit reached in Russia. Call for applications for 2022 is open
September 21, 2021
At an interdepartmental meeting held at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Federal Customs Service and Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, it was confirmed that the HFC consumption limit established in Russia for 2021—46,292,794 t CO2-eq.—was reached.
The decision was accepted based upon the fact that in 2021, the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage provided a state service on the issuance of HFC import permits to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs for the total amount equal to the amount established by the order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation for 2021.
According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the amounts in the issued permits and the order agree.
With the purpose of HFC quota allocation for 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation communicates that legal entities and individual entrepreneurs that intend to import HFCs in 2022 should apply specifying in their requests a name of HFC (pure or in blend), and amount in metric and CO2 tons (by substances and total).
Metric tons should be converted into tons of CO2-equivalent with coefficients according to annex E to the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer should be applied.
The applications should also include data on amounts of HFCs effectively imported in 2019–2021 with respective purposes.
Background
The Russian Federation adopted the Kigali amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer in March 2020 and committed to controlling the consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC).
In January 2021, the order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation established permissible amounts of HFC for 2021–2036.