1. „Closed-technology” Certification and
Monitoring tools for RAC and HP
sector
Implementation of the ODS and Fgas regulations
in Hungary
Mr. Attila ZOLTÁN, managing director
HMBC
UNEP Thematic meeting on HPMP, Budapest, 19-21 October 2011

2. Fgas Certification and Monitoring
the Hungarian way
• Short history of the development the certification
and monitoring systems in Hungary,
• ODS&F-gas regulations vs the not solved Future
Frequently Asked Questions,
• Basic targets of the existing Hungarian
implementation
• The Hungarian way of implementation
• Further imaginations and intentions
• Summary UNEP&HMCB_HPMP_Budapest,
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3. Short history of C&M in Hungary
• 1993 - HRACA has been established
• 1994 – ODS –Montreal - project
– Recovery units, reclaiming station
– First personnel certifications
• 2000 – start of implementation of 2037/2000
– Second family of green cards, categories A - F!
• 2004 – Hungary became EU member
– New governmental regulations
– Mandatory leakage checking
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4. Short history of C&M in Hungary
• 2006 – the new C&M system
– Special card for experts in leak-checking,
– Certified companies for leak-checking
– Labelling of installed equipment
• 2007 - „Implementation of a M&C Body in Hungary”
EU twinning light project, beneficiary the HRACA
• 2008 – basement of the implementation
– new governmental degree – „merged” ODS and FGG
– Application to work out and be nominated HMCB,
– Succeeded!
• 04/07/2009 – the Body started to operate!
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5. HRACA’s greencard
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6. .
Equipment label
Until 2009
by HRACA
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7. .
Leak-checking
label
Until 2009
by HRACA
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8. ODS&Fgas regulations and the Future
Frequently Asked Questions
2006 – the 842/2006 has been released, but not solved
FFAQs, missing decisions, interpretations and
arrangements:
– „independent” from and minimum context to
2037/2000, EN 378, prEN 13313,
– alignment of definitions with Regulation
1005/2009,
– No clear definitions on application, equipment,
refrigeration circuit (we are speaking about!),
operator-owner,UNEP&HMCB_HPMP_Budapest,
reporting,…
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9. ODS&Fgas regulations and the Future
Frequently Asked Questions
– arrangements on Mobile refrigeration equipment,
MAC sector (and others, only installed!?),
– mandatory registration of RAC companies, same
on personnel in MAC sector,
– required knowledge on indirect leakage checking
in Category II, and IV,
– minimum requirements on company certification,
categories, but mutual recognition?
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10. ODS&Fgas regulations and the Future
Frequently Asked Questions
– arrangements on everybody else should buy
refrigerants without any certification but RAC
installers! Article 5 (4),
– refrigerant pre-charged in non-monobloc systems
not in scope,
– ID and labelling of already commissioned
equipment,
– Reason of threshold of 3kg F-gases? MAC sector?,
– details of the reporting systems should have been
established in every MS, Article 6 (4), but which
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11. Basic targets of the existing Hungarian
implementation
• „re-engineering” and expanding the HRACA system
by „merging” of ODS and FGG regulations,
• involve all the sectors and stakeholders handle, use
contain, 3R refrigerants,
• Set higher quality levels for the services,
maintenance refrigerating circuits, equipment,
applications and operators habits,
• create a new, internet based certification and
registration systems for personnel and companies
– Both in installed and mobile sectors
– based on 303/, 307/.... and prEN13313
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12. Basic targets of the existing Hungarian
implementation
• control and influence the operators and their
equipment, refrigeration circuits, maintenance habits
by mandatory refrigeration circuit registration,
• follow the traces of refrigerants from the placing on
the market up to proper disposal, and not into the
environment
• collect data by creating database the refrigeration
circuits, equipment, operators, the main stakeholders
for the present and future (analysis, review, EPBD)
• therefore reduce both of direct and indirect
environmental load, holistic approach!!
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13. The Hungarian way of implementation
Personnel certification
• All in all more, than 7600 persons with interim
certification by HRACA,
• The MAC sector has been involved (Category
VI for transport refrigeration , VII for
automotive AC)
• Independent Assessment Bodies for all/part
categories – agreement with HMCB
• Fgas certified up to 600 persons
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14. The Hungarian way of implementation
Personnel certification
• Fgas assessment process:
– E-learning up to 600 tasks differentiated by categories
– internet-based test examination, 2 hours
– theoretical/practical assessment, 1-2 day(s)
• Certification are valid for 5 years
• HMBC IT system for all, from HRACA trainings,
registration, exams up to interim and final
certificate.
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15. The Hungarian way of implementation
Company certification, criteria
• Intermediate solution (HRACA since 2006 & now
HMCB)
– Registration at the authorities - dangerous waste
– Self-audit, declaration about the acceptance of
HMBC’s criteria
– immediate registration, interim validity 30 days to be
able to buy refrigerant after 4th of July,
– interim criteria: declaration, certified personnel
employed, fees payed,
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16. The Hungarian way of implementation
Company certification, criteria
• Final certification by auditing (start 2010-11),
based on
– compliance with legal criteria,
– technical infrastructure, list of minimum tools,
– procedure descriptions, administration,
– updated refrigerant inventory
– filling up the data in IT needed
– certified personnel employed + IT registered
– yearly registration fees payed
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17. The Hungarian way of implementation
Company certification
• all the stakeholders must be in the system
• certification are valid until fulfilling the criteria
• systematical control and audit by IT data,
• Certification for companies:
– handle, use, recover refrigerants and install,
service, maintain refrigeration circuits,
– Categories Installed I,II,IV, and MAC I,II
– More than 1200 certified companies
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18. The Hungarian way of implementation
Registration of operators
• Registration for operators, owners (private
person or company):
– now mandatory only for the operators of ≥ 3kg
refrigeration /AC/HP circuits, or anybody else
– Now over 2200 registered entity
– Later ( 01.01.2012?) MAC ≥ 3kg too,
• But:
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19. The Hungarian way of implementation
Stakeholder companies registration
• Registration for companies:
– handle, use, recover refrigerants for own special
purposes (manufacturing, WEEE plants, R&D,
training centres, etc), reclaiming, recovering
facilities and third parties
– up to 100 registered company
• All the stakeholders should be in the system
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20. The Hungarian way of implementation
Monitoring the refrigeration circuits, use of
refrigerant, the operators’ habits
• Database for all the data required
• Handling the relations between operators and
companies (and personnel!)
• Labelling, minutes, protocols
• Data-evaluations, reporting
• Information source for public, body, authorities
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21. Personnel Registration,
Assessment fee paid, Operator
yearly control owner
Personnel only to be
certified Refrigeration registered
“Licensed”
circuit if more
service
database than 3 kg!!
companies
Company
in four
certification technical (later MAC
categories:
data, label, too!!
leakch,
HLH-I, -II brake in,
Realtime IT
admin... Stakeholders
certification! MAC-I, -II
Legal, to be
admin registered put
Technical,
Refrigerant on the market,
Procedures
a
management use, reclaim,
Refr.report
dispose,
CERTIFICATION MONITORING refrigerant
Hungarian Monitoring and Certification structure, Oct, 1011, Budap

22. And now, in the reality
Hungarian Monitoring and Certification Body
for installed and mobile Refrigeration,
AirConditioning and Heatpump sector,
appointed by the Minister responsible for
the Environment on the 29th of June 2009
www.hlhmonitoring.hu
www.frigocert.com
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24. .Personnel Certification
• Transitional cetrtifications
– Issued by HRACA
• Interim certifications
– Issued by HMCB
• Personnel Categories/blue cards by HMCB
– Installed I- IV
– Mobile V-VII
– HP, Gasheater-Installers, inspectors in preparation
phase
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25. .
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26. Company certification, registration
HLH- I, HLH-II - installed
MAC-I, MAC-II- mobile
HLH – IV – operators’
leakchecker
Refrigerant dealer –
whole and resale
K – outside HU, export
KF – R&D
Manufacturer
R - reclaiming
S – disposal
BT – application operator
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27. Operators, refrigeration circuits
• LABEL
• Mandatory minutes:
– Leakage checking, after-repairs too!
– Filling up-recovering –correction refrigerant charge
– Breakin circuit-repairs
– Control installed leakage checking equipment
• Ability of uploading all other documents needed
– Leakage checking documentation (mandatory),..
• a kind of e-logbook!!
• More than 30.000 registered refrigeration circuit
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28. The label
Electronic label
the only one can be
printed from the IT
system!!

29. Use of minutes, protokols by appointed Certified
person of partner Certified Company
 rolling menus,
 predefined data
 control of refrigerant charge vs filled/recovered quantity
 history
 retrofit
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30. Refrigerant inventory, now
• Certified companies
– ≥ 3kg refrigeration circuits – IT based
– Record-keeping excel sheets by Body
– yearly or on-request declarations and /or reports
(criteria of company recertification!)
• Registered companies use refrigerant
– Only record-keeping and yearly report
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31. Refrigerant inventory, now
• Refrigerant wholesalers and retailers extras!
– Record-keeping of sold refrigerants (buyer name,
type, quantity, certificationcontrol in the IT
system!)
• Operators of ≥ 3kg refrigeration circuits
– Registration, basic data by the operator
– IT based administration by CP of CCs
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32. Refrigerant Lifecycle
• MSs’ refrigerant management system
for all the stakeholders in installed and mobile
sector to achieve a closed circuit refrigerant
monitoring system
– manufacturer,
– wholesaler, retailer,..
– certified companies – with mandatory reporting
– operators, where the refrigerant leaks
– disposal sites,.., where the refrigerant
disappears!!
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33. The results
• a well-functioning personnel assessment and
certification system covering all the trade,
• company certification and registration system for all
the stakeholders,
• mandatory registration of operators and their
equipment, refrigeration circuits,
• the IT system :
– ensures the registration, ID and labelling of refrigeration
circuits,
– contains all the mandatory record keepings of the operators
– treats the relations between entities and authorisations,
– builds up database for control, certification and evaluation,
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34. The results
– is open for everybody, for the authorities to use
– is open for further developments, as:
• MS’s refrigerant management system
• further personnel and/or company categories,
• further sectors of operators,
• registration of different entities , as MAC, heating
devices,
• for record keeping of energetic evaluations, etc.
– ready to handle all the data in real-time mode
– able to evaluate the database from every aspects
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35. The results, the summary of
refrigerants’ use
2009’LM/Fl reports 2010.08.19
cca. 11.000 refrigeration circuit from 21.000 registered
type leaked /kg summa/kg leaking rates %
Others 12.00 61.0 19.6
R-12 4.00 105.5 3.79
R-13 239.36 3.4 7040.0
R-134a 2108.00 45807.5 4.6
R-404A 21023.10 194998.1 10.78
R-407C 8016.12 68221.5 11.75
R-410A 468.00 10303.8 4.54
R-413A 8.00 116.1 6.89
R-507 20.00 216.0 9.26
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36. The results, the summary of
refrigerants’ use
type leaked /kg summa/kg leaking rates %
R-422D 105.00 849.2 12.36
R-23 7.50 76.6 9.79
R-22 20497.08 88599.8 23.13
R-402A 135.90 269.6 50.41
R-408A 4.00 26.0 15.38
R-409A 91.00 220.4 41.29
Propan R-290 29.00 9.6 302.08
R-115 45.00 270.0 16.67
R-407A 1399.50 138.8 1008.29
Overall 54 210 kg 410 168 kg 13,22 %
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37. Hungarian Monitoring and
Certification Body
HLH-Monitoring Nonprofit Kft.
Petzvál József 31-33.., 1119 Budapest, Hungary
www.hlhmonitoring.hu
Managing Director: Mr. Attila Zoltán
info@hlhmonitoring.hu
t/fax: +36-1-224 0150
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Thanks for attention
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