Cemafroid has been designated as an approved body for issuing certificates of capability to operators handling refrigerant fluids. View publication of our agreement in the JO (Journal Officiel in french) List of certified operators Request for certificate of capability to handle refrigerant fluids Obtain certificates of capability of your participants from our partner APAVE

Your certificate of capability on line with Cemafroid

You are:
A specialist of commercial refrigeration or industrial refrigeration, air conditioning or heat pumps, your company installs equipment containing refrigerant fluids.
A mechanic, repairer, disassembly operator, your personnel handles refrigerant fluids when conducting maintenance operations on the air conditioning system or its removal on the vehicles listed in Article R.311-1 of the Traffic Law.

You must obtain your certificate of capability before 4 July 2009.
To fulfil your regulatory obligations:
CEMAFROID is one of the first bodies ever approved to issue certificates of capability to handle refrigerant fluids.
CEMAFROID is approved for Categories I, II, III and IV, V (all categories).

The categories covered by the Cemafroid agreement are summarised in the table below:

CEMAFROID operates the Datafluides national platform for the processing of capability certificates on behalf of three approved bodies.

With Cemafroid you will have the benefit of:
A body having a status and shareholding structure which ensure impartial decisions,
Over 40 years of expertise in refrigeration and refrigerated equipment,
Assessment appropriate to the size of your organisation everywhere in France including DOM territories,
A website dedicated to your fluid balance statements,
A body which is a member of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) and the AFF (Association Française du Froid, the French Association of Refrigeration),
A body which is independent from the fluid distributors.

To apply for your certificate, you are offered two alternatives:

The Zero paper, Eco form through Internet

Your application is entered
via Datafluides.
Download our offer (in french) and send back the order slip.
As soon as your duly completed order and your payment have been received, you will be granted access to Datafluides to file your application.

Paper file form
Contact Eric Devin / Patricia Lopes to obtain application forms.



You are:
A testing centre or a manufacturer approved by Cemafroid under the temperature-controlled carriage regulation, download the specific offer for the Datafrig "document" section.
An automotive professional, you are a member of UNICAP, GCR, Groupement des distributeurs Citroën, CNPA, GAPMA or Performance 2002, contact your member organisation to benefit from negotiated prices.


As a training centre, you wish to be certified as an assessment body and obtain the capability certificate in one step: contact our partner Global Certification.

More information

Download our information sheet (in french)
Download our modelaction sheet (in french)
Download our model periodic leak test certificate (in french)
Download our sample required marking (in french)(cat I)
Download our information about verification of tools (in french)

Find out more on how to obtain the ability certificates that each of your participants is to obtain prior to 4 July 2011 (required for your certificate of ability to be maintained)

Consult our partner Apave formation