Gas Appliances (GAR)

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Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council on appliances burning gaseous fuels and repealing Directive 2009/142/EC (GAR: gas appliances regulation) shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. The scope of the GAR is restricted to appliances burning gaseous fuels used for cooking, refrigeration, air-conditioning, space heating, hot water production, lighting or washing, and also forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners.

This Regulation does not apply to appliances specifically designed for use in industrial processes carried out on industrial premises.

Three criteria need to be fulfilled together for appliances specifically designed for use in industrial processes carried out on industrial premises:

- industrial process: the extraction, growth, refining, processing, production, manufacture or preparation of materials, plants, livestock, animal products, food or other products with a view to their commercial use;
- industrial premises: any place where the main activity carried out is an industrial process that would be subject to specific national health and safety regulations;
- specifically designed: the design is only intended to address a specific need for a specific process or use.

 In conclusion one appliance burning gaseous fuel may be considered „gas-consuming technological system” and could be excluded (not in scope of) GAR if the appliance is specifically designed for use in industrial processes carried out on industrial premises.

News

Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council on appliances burning gaseous fuels and repealing Directive 2009/142/EC shall be binding in its entirety shall apply from 21 April 2018. The Regulation is directly applicable in all Member States. Directive 2009/142/EC is repealed with effect from 21 April 2018. Same the tranpointing Hungarian decreee 22/1998. (IV. 17.) IKIM is repealed from 21 April 2018.

Warning!

Conform to article 1 point 1 paragraph a) of repealed Directive 2009/142/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 relating to appliances burning gaseous fuels „appliances” means appliances burning gaseous fuels used for cooking, heating, hot water production, refrigeration, lighting or washing and having, where applicable, a normal water temperature not exceeding 105 °C. Forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners shall also be considered as appliances.

Conform to article 2 paragraph a) repealed transposing Hungarian legislation 22/1998 (IV. 17.) IKIM decree „gas-consuming appliances” means  any product working with gas fuel used for cooking, baking, hot water production, refrigeration, lighting, washing and having where applicable a normal water temperature not exceeding 105ºC, as well as heat exchangers built with forced draft burners corresponding these conditions. Forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners shall also be considered as appliances with the exception of equipment for industrial thermal processes.

The GAD exclusion for appliances having a normal water temperature exceeding 105°C has been removed.

This would bring gas-fired steam generators, hot water boilers and steam boilers within the scope so long as they were used for one of the purposes listed (eg: space heating).

REGULATION (EU) 2016/426 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on appliances burning gaseous fuels and repealing Directive 2009/142/EC for appliances having normal water does not specify temperature limit.

The appliances having normal water exceedig temperature 110 °C are under scope of Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council on appliances burning gaseous fuels  and are also  as well  under scope of  Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment. The 2014/68/EU Directive transposed  into Hungarian legislation 44/2016. (XI. 28.) NGM on the pressure equipment and systems certification of safety requirements and compliance Ministerial decree.

Where an appliance or a fitting is subject to more than one Union act requiring an EU declaration of conformity, a single EU declaration of conformity shall be drawn up in respect of all such Union acts. That declaration shall contain the identification of the Union acts concerned, including their publication references.