Guidance and regulation

A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 7 February 2024

Use this service to submit and manage chemical registrations and notifications.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 20 July 2023

Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 20 December 2022

The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 3 February 2023

Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 16 January 2024

Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 12 January 2024

Your responsibilities to check equipment for fluorinated gas (F gas) leaks.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 August 2019

How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

When you need company certification to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and how to get it.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 August 2019

For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 15 May 2023

How to record and report fluorinated gas (F gas) you produce, import, export or destroy in Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 14 November 2022

How to apply for an exemption to use a restricted substance to manufacture electrical and electronic equipment.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 3 others
• Updated: 23 February 2023

How to import, export, or manufacture pre-charged equipment containing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 September 2022

Uses of fluorinated gases (F gases) that are banned or will be banned in the future.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 March 2023

When you can use PCBs and equipment, products or materials containing them, and how to register, label and dispose of them.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 19 December 2022

How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 19 December 2022

How to recover fluorinated gas (F gas) from equipment and get it reclaimed or recycled.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 18 April 2023

Records you must keep about fluorinated gas (F gas) in your own equipment.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 August 2019

Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 6 February 2024

How and when you can apply for fluorinated gas (F gas) quota in Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 August 2022