1. Institutional set-up, legal
infrastructures, decision making
and procedures to manage ODS
and F-Gases in the Czech Republic
Jana Borská
Jana.Borska@mzp.cz
Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic
Department of Air Protection

3. • 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
– 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

4. 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
layer (ozone observatory in
Antarctica; monitoring centre in the
Czech Republic – Hradec Králové,
CHMI)
– Implementation of alternative
technology with zero ODP
The Brewer spectrophotometer,
(Broadcasting tower in Prague) Marambio Base; photo M. Janouch
• GWP and TEWI were important

5. Recovery of ODSs from old devices
• Recovery of ODS and F-gases from old RAC
system encouraged by Waste Act
• the back system of
electrical and
electronic devices.

6. Ozone layer and climate protection
• 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
– 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