The scope of Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2009 is to lay down rules on the production, import, export, placing on the market, use, recovery, recycling, reclamation and destruction of substances that deplete the ozone layer (ODS, listed in Annex I), on the reporting of information related to those substances and on the import, export, placing on the market and use of products and equipment containing or relying on such substances. The Regulation provides that ODS contained in refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump equipment, equipment containing solvents or fire protection systems and fire extinguishers shall, during the maintenance or servicing of equipment or before the dismantling or disposal of equipment, be recovered for destruction, recycling or reclamation. Controlled substances and products containing such substances shall only be destroyed by approved technologies listed in Annex VII of the Regulation or, in the case of controlled substances not referred to in that Annex, by the most environmentally acceptable destruction technology not entailing excessive costs, provided that the use of those technologies complies with Community and national legislation on waste and that additional requirements under such legislation are met. The Regulation sets rules for temporary storage and destruction of ODS and prohibits the export of equipment containing ODS.
