2Article 5(4) of Directive 2006/40/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 relating to emissions from air-conditioning systems in motor vehicles and amending Council Directive 70/156/EEC (OJ 2006 L 161, p. 12, ‘the air-conditioning systems directive’) provides that, with effect from 1 January 2011, Member States are no longer to grant EC type-approval or national type-approval for a type of vehicle fitted with an air-conditioning system designed to contain fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential higher than 150. However, that directive does not prescribe a specific type of refrigerant. The implementation of that prohibition was postponed by the European Commission until 1 January 2013.
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