AREA and EPEE have issued a joint position calling for improvements of Article 5 of the F-Gas Regulation on training and certification. Starting from the experience with the Regulation’s implementation and application, the position makes several proposals:
- Penalise non-certified contractors interfering with the refrigerant circuit, as currently done in France or the Netherlands
- Stipulate mandatory registration of certified companies and personnel
- Extend responsibility to check certification status to subcontractors
- Clearly stipulate that distributors/wholesalers are only allowed to sell fluorinated greenhouse gases to certified contractors entitled to break into a refrigerant circuit
- Make it clear that fluorinated gases can only be sold to certified companies if those interfere with the refrigerant circuit (without limitation on the type of service they provide)