1. Registration of Operators and
administration of refrigeration circuits,
the IT based logbook
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. 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

3. Hungarian way
REGISTERED COMPANIES
(All the stakeholders, except certified!)
– Semi-certified (wholesalers, distributors),
– Operators of installed 3 or more kg charge,,
– Operators of mobile (transport) refrigeration
circuit 3 or more!
– Use refrigerant (R&D, manufacturers, schools, ..)
– Reclaiming and disposal facilities

4. Hungarian way
Tasks and responsibilities of
REGISTERED COMPANIES
Semi-certified (wholesalers, distributors),
– To employ certified Category III.
– To control the certification’s validity of certified company at
selling refrigerant,
– Administration of sold refrigerant(list of buyers, types and
quantities
– Yearly Report about the imported, sold, exported and

5. Hungarian way
Tasks and responsibilities REGISTERED COMPANIES
(All the stakeholders, except certified!)
Operators of installed 3 or more kg charge,
– Registration both of sites and refrigeration circuits,
– To pay fees (6-7€/circuit, year + 0,1 €cent/kg
– Find and appoint certified partners
– Permanent control of administration
– Yearly report (check and acceptation of data made by
partners)

6. Hungarian way
Operators of mobile (transport) refrigeration circuit
3 or more, similar as mentioned above – from 1st
og January 2012, if ?!
Use refrigerant (R &D, manufacturers, assessment
places …)
– Yearly reporting
Reclaiming, demolishing and disposal facilities

7. Hungarian way, history
Registration of operators, monitoring the refrigeration circuits
• Neither operator, nor circuit registration – period until 2007
• HRACA system since 2007, only circuits, and by certified
companies,
• Pre-certified companies with certified personnel for leakage-
checking (orange card, 150 companies),
• Labelling, minutes with data to be reported, (about 2500
equipment),
• Mandatory equipment (3 or more kg) registration system,
since 2008 about 15-18t refrigeration circuits have been
registered by the operators, at the authorities,
• And in the end 2009 start with the Body’s IT system!!

8. .
Start:
Equipment label
until 07.2009
by HRACA

9. .
Leakchecking label
until 07.2009
by HRACA

10. And now the Body’s IT system
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 July 2009
www.hlhmonitoring.hu
Hungarian version, English later!!

11. The homepage
Környezetvédelmi Felügyelőségek Fórum– KvVM 2009. szeptember 30.

12. Company certification, registration
HLH- I, HLH-II - installed
MAC-I, MAC-II- mobile
HLH – IV – operators with
own category IV
personnel
Refrigerant dealer –
direct-indirect
K – outside HU
KF – R&D
Manufacturer
R – reclaiming point
S – disposal point
BT – application operator
Környezetvédelmi Felügyelőségek Fórum– KvVM 2009. szeptember 30.

13. Operators, refrigeration circuits
• registration circuit by circuit (no equipment,
no application) , installed and putting into
operation,
• very first registration by the operator:
company data, sites, name of equipment, not more!!,
• appointing certified companies by the
operator, as service partner(s), to register real
data by circuits and make services needed

14. Operators, refrigeration circuits
• LABEL – the only printable one
• Mandatory minutes:
– leakage checking, after-repairs too!
– use-recovering refrigerant
– circuit-repair
– control installed leakage checking equipment
• Ability of storage all other, additional documents
needed
– Leakage checking documentation (mandatory),
– Minutes of putting into operation, commissioning,
– Additional remarks, service documents, operational
manuals,..
• a proper, absolutely paperless e-logbook!!

15. Operators, refrigeration circuits
• Ready for data-evaluations, reporting,
• information source for public, body,
authorities,
• mandatory for 3kgs and up (only installed),
• Voluntary for less then 3(6) kgs installed
and + MAC,

16. Registration data of refrigeration circuit
by Certified person of Certified company
Környezetvédelmi Felügyelőségek Fórum– KvVM 2009. szeptember 30.

17. .
Result is a
refrigeration
CIRCUIT LABEL
of HMCB
- with all the data
needed
- barcode for ID
-”hidden” proof of
mandatory leakage
checking
- ……………
- can be printed onsite..

18. Registration of refrigeration circuit
by Operator/Owner, appointing Certified company
Környezetvédelmi Felügyelőségek Fórum– KvVM 2009. szeptember 30.

19. Use of minutes, protokols by
appointed Certified person of Certified company
 rolling menus,
 predefined data
 control of refrigerant charge vs filled/recovered quantity
 history
 retrofit
Környezetvédelmi Felügyelőségek Fórum– KvVM 2009. szeptember 30.

20. Results since ..
• The HMCB&IT operating started on the 6th of
July 2009
• Since than a lot of corrections fluently, but it
works
• 7800 HRACA registered/ 2300 interim/final
certified persons
• 1800/1400 certified companies,
• Close 31.000 IT registered refrigeration circuits

21. Results since ..
• Some disturbing facts: governmental changes,
economy low-flight, MSs’ certification-import,
sleeping authorities, black market,…but
• Persons are on different opinion -
preconditions, e-learning of the Fgas assesment,
• Certified companies are strongly interested in a
proper working system, but some others… not
• Operators slowly realize the „need” of doing so
and are happy,

22. Hungarian Monitoring and
Certification Body
HLH-Monitoring Nonprofit Kft.
Petzvál József utca 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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