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F-Gas Certification Details
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To obtain a Full company certificate, businesses must:
- Employ sufficient numbers of personnel holding a full personnel qualification to cover expected volume of in-scope activities; and
- Have the necessary tools and procedures for the personnel to carry out the in-scope activities that require certification.
If you have not already applied for a Company Certificate you should do so immediately, without further delay. It is now a criminal offence to carry out the above activities without a Company Certificate.
From the 1st January 2015 new f-gas regulation 517/2014 comes in to force which will affect all manufacturers, suppliers and users of fluorinated gases.
Gas UK would like to bring to your attention one particular change that will affect you. These changes are covered in articles 6, 10 and 11 of the legislation which cover record keeping, training and certification and restrictions on placing on the market. Gas UK has inplemented a new policy on the sale of Fluorinated Refrigerant Gas (F-Gases), this is that our letter of assurance must be filled in to an adequate standard and audited by a authorised member of staff, before any sale of Fluorinated Refrigerant Gas (F-Gases) can take place.
From January 1st 2015 Gas UK will require the following f-gas certification information from customers prior to the supply of HFC refrigerant gases (first supply only).
Once Gas UK has registered this information in our system against your account you will be able to continue to purchase refrigerant product from us as normal until the renewal date of your company F-gas registration.
If you do not have an F-gas certificate you can apply for one online from www.fgasregister.com.
There are several exclusions, the break down of the certification required is shown below.
RACHP Company Certificte will allow the engineer to do work within the folowing sectors, Stationary refrigerant, air conditioning, heat pumps. Refrigerated trucks and trailers.
FPS Company Certificate will allow the engineer to work within the following sector, Stationary fire protection systems.
MAC Personal Attestion will allow the engineer to work within the following sector, Mobile air-conditioning in cars and light vans
HV Switchgear Personnel Certificate is for high voltage switchgear.
No certification is required for the following, if the use is for other transport and mobile air-conditioning which includes small vans, iso-containers, trains, ships and buses. if the use is for a specialist user for example magnesium casting, semiconductors or laboratory uses. Or if the gas is to be resold.