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F Gas Regulations

The F Gas Regulations states owners are obliged to ensure that only qualified personnel and companies can carry out installation, service and maintenance work on equipment which contain F Gas refrigerants. Are your current contractors compliant?

Further details on the regulations can be found below, if you have any query please don’t hesitate to give us a call.

The F Gas Regulation. This is EC Regulation 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases). This Regulation aims to reduce emissions of HFCs, PFCs and SF6. Many organisations use HFCs for refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.

In Great Britain the Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2009 (Statutory Instrument No 261) applied from 9th March 2009. This Statutory Instrument prescribes offences and penalties applicable to infringements of the EC F gas Regulation and lays out the qualifications and certification requirements.

The EC F gas Regulation requires companies to hold a “Company Certificate” if they are undertaking

installation or maintenance / servicing of stationary refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment that

contains, or is designed to contain, F gas refrigerants. “Companies” in this context refers to any

organisation, business, charity, government organisation etc, including sole traders, that employ

personnel to undertake these activities. This includes specialist contractors and also end users that

carry out such work “in-house”. To gain a full Company Certificate an organisation needs to make a statement that it meets certain criteria, including employing personnel with suitable F gas qualifications and having appropriate equipment and procedures that allow those personnel to comply with the F gas Regulation. Any organisation that employs qualified personnel for installation and servicing & maintenance of RAC equipment containing F gas refrigerants must hold a Company Certificate. If a company uses subcontractors to deliver all such work on its behalf (i.e. they do not employ any qualified personnel) they do not require a Company Certificate, but must ensure their sub-contractors are appropriately certificated.

In Great Britain, the person having control of the equipment containing the F gas refrigerant (the “operator”), typically a company, is likely to have responsibility. Also, any company employing personnel involved in working on equipment that contains or is designed to contain F gases must ensure that they have the appropriate qualifications and company certification.

The Ozone Regulation. This is EC Regulation 1005/2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer. This regulation came into force on 1st January 2010 and replaced the old Ozone Regulation EC 2037/2000 which has now been revoked. This Regulation is aimed at phasing-out the use of ozone depleting chemicals. The only Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) still in use in most organisations are HCFC refrigerants, especially R22, which will be phased-out under this Regulation by 2015. The use of virgin HCFCs for maintenance of RAC systems was banned on 1st January 2010.