Právo: Czech environment ministry drops planned ban on sales of coal-fired stoves and boilers

The Ministry of the Environment (MŽP) has removed from its planned amendment to the Clean Air Act a ban on the sale of stoves and boilers running on coal, anthracite and coke from January 2025. The proposal met with opposition from some members of the public and criticism during the consultation process. The daily Právo reported this today.

„Manufacturers of solid fossil fuel heating sources will therefore still be able to place them on the market, provided they meet legal requirements,“ ministry spokesperson Lucie Ješátková told the paper.

This spring, Environment Minister Petr Hladík (KDU-ČSL) justified the proposal to ban the sale of coal boilers from 1 January 2025 in the media, among other things, by saying that, according to his information, coal boilers were no longer being sold on the Czech market because people were not interested in them, and that coal was gradually becoming more expensive while gas was currently cheap.