Recognition as a training centre for technicians recovering certain fluorinated greenhouse gas-based solvents from stationary equipment

The training centre must be recognised to be allowed to organise the examination for technicians recovering certain fluorinated greenhouse gas-based solvents from stationary equipment.

To be recognised as a training centre, the training centre must fulfil:

• general recognition conditions (opens in new window)that apply to all recognitions relating to the environment
  • in the 3 years that precede the application for the Flemish recognition certificate, the applicant has not been convicted of a criminal offence in a member state of the European Economic Area, for infringements of the environmental legislation concerning the use of the recognition.
  • in the 2 years that precede the application for the Flemish recognition certificate, no recognition with the same object was revoked due to infringement of the obligations associated with that recognition.
• and the following special recognition conditions:
  • the training centre must
    • have effective procedures in place to organise the examination
    • organise a regulatory examination jury.

Validity period

Recognition as a training centre is granted for an indefinite period.

Request your recognition from the Flemish administration.

• Submit the necessary documents to the Flemish adminisration.
  • Submit your application and receipt via the online recognition desk(opens in new window) (click on “Ga naar het erkenningenloket”; log in with eID or eIDAS).
  • If you do not have a Belgian eID:
    • you can log in at the online recognition desk with eIDAS if your country is connected through eIDAS;
    • or you can submit your application by registered letter to Vlaams Energie-en Klimaatagentschap (VEKA), Koning Albert II-laan 15 bus 460, 1210 Brussel.

The competent authority will handle your request. This could involve a site visit. The leading official of the Energy and Climate Agency of Flanders reaches a decision within 90 days, starting from the day after the submission of the complete application file.

No fee is payable for the recognition application.

Flemish regulation on environmental recognitions (VLAREL).