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Netherlands has searchable F-gas register

NETHERLANDS: After years of lobbying by industry, the Netherlands has joined those countries offering an online searchable F-gas register.

While a number of countries including the UK are without any reliable means of checking company certification and individual F-gas qualification,  the Netherlands now joins Denmark, France, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden as countries with operative, accessible databases.

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