F-Gas Regulations

We have all seen major changes to the industry these past few years, with many of these changes brought about through the implementation of two important pieces of environmental legislation that have had a significant impact on the RAC sector. These are: The F-Gas Regulation, EC 842/2006 and The Ozone Regulation, EC 2037/2000.

Whilst these Regulations have been in place for some time, certain important obligations came into force during 2009 and you can expect to see plenty of activity from the law’s regulator to ensure that the obligations on both RAC equipment operators and contractors are being met. The most important deadlines that occurred in 2009/2010 are related to certification of companies and to the phase-out of virgin R22. After 4th July 2009 the F Gas Regulation requires all companies involved in the installation, servicing or maintenance of RAC equipment containing F Gases to hold a Company Certificate. Courses can be carried out at our location or we are happy to quote for delivering the course and assessment at your location at an additional costing, this is often preferred as it saves your company’s time and loss of work hours. For the mobile air conditioning technicians. We deliver the City & Guilds 7543-01 previously known as the 5101 Certificate in Mobile Vehicle Air Conditioning Systems and for the general refrigeration engineer the City & Guilds 2079-11-12-13-14.