About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Europe 2015
published on 16 March 2015
9 pages
559 KB

Florian Veyssilier from the French Ministry of Environment discussed the French perspective on implementing the F-Gas Regulation and their many activities involved in this. In addition to updating national regulations from 2007, with a phase-down, quota compliance, as well as bans on specific products or use, the government is involved in data collection. This includes an on-going study on leak rates and price monitoring of HFCs in France and the EU. According to Veyssilier, France supports paid quotas, which will again be discussed before 2017 after an evaluation by the European Commission on the impact of free quota allocation. What was also mentioned was that in the summer of 2015, the French government is planning on updating regulations to alleviate the burden on ammonia installations, to allow for a wider introduction of these technologies in France.

About the speaker(s)

Florian Veyssilier

 

Florian Veyssilier graduated from the Ecole des Mines d'Ales engineering school in France. Since 2011, he has been a policy adviser in the general directorate for risk prevention of the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. In particular, he is responsible for the implementation in France of the FGas regulation and the national regulation that applies to fluorinated greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances. He is also one of the French delegates in the Montreal Protocol negociations, and especially involved in HFC amendment talks. Previously, he worked for 4 years in the IT industry as a software developer, including 3 years in Amadeus IT Group in Sophia-Antipolis.