Article 3 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

1. 1..

   ‘installation’ means joining two or more pieces of equipment or circuits containing or designed to contain fluorinated greenhouse gas refrigerant, with a view to assembling a system in the location where it will be operated, including the action by which refrigerant conductors of a system are joined together to complete a refrigerant circuit irrespective of the need to charge the system after assembly;

2. 2..

   ‘maintenance or servicing’ means all activities, excluding recovery and checks for leakage as defined in Articles 2(14) and 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 842/2006 respectively, that entail breaking into the circuits containing or designed to contain fluorinated greenhouse gases, in particular supplying the system with fluorinated greenhouse gases, removing one or more pieces of circuit or equipment, re-assembling two or more pieces of circuit or equipment, as well as repairing leakages.