(Finance) – Nineteen seizures of large quantities of illegal refrigerant gas And 38 administrative sanctionsout of a total of 170 checks throughout the national territory. These are the numbers of the campaign conducted in 2024 by the Command for Forest Protection and Parks of the Carabinieri, which highlighted the phenomenon of trade in fluorinated greenhouse gasesthe gradual replacement of which with gases with a reduced environmental impact must be envisaged.
The data of countryside were exposed during a meeting at the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, in which it was decided to launch the permanent Coordination Table on controls on fluorinated gases (Fgas), in line with the objectives of the new European Regulation 2024/573 entered into force.
The Table will see the participation of all the bodies involved in various capacities in control activities: in addition to the representatives of MASE (General Directorate for Sustainability of products and consumption of the Sustainable Development Department), the Command for Forest Protection and Parks of the Carabinierithe Command for Environmental Protection and Energy Security of the Army, theCustoms Agency. The new tool will serve to exchange information and good practices between institutions, plan joint actions to control and combat illicit activities, and increase the effectiveness of supervision along the entire supply chain.