1.This Regulation shall apply to natural persons carrying out the following activities:
(a)Maintenance or servicing, or repair of air-conditioning equipment in motor vehicles falling within the scope of Directive 2006/40/EC and of air-conditioning equipment and heat pumps in heavy duty vehicles, vans, non-road mobile machinery used in agriculture, mining and construction operations, trains, metros and trams containing fluorinated greenhouse gases or the alternative substances hydrocarbons or carbon dioxide (CO2);
(b)leak checks of air-conditioning equipment and heat pumps in heavy duty vehicles, vans, non-road mobile machinery used in agriculture, mining and construction operations, trains, metros, trams containing fluorinated greenhouse gases listed in Annex I and Section I of Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/573;
(c)recovery of fluorinated greenhouse gases from the cooling circuits of refrigeration units of refrigerated light-duty vehicles, intermodal containers, including reefers, and train wagons and from the cooling circuits of air conditioning equipment and heat pumps in heavy duty vehicles, vans, non-road mobile machinery used in agriculture, mining and construction operations, trains, metros, and trams and from air-conditioning equipment in motor vehicles which fall within the scope of Directive 2006/40/EC;
(d)recovery of fluorinated greenhouse gases listed in Annex I and in Section I of Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/573 from air-conditioning equipment in road vehicles, not covered under point (c), falling outside the scope of Directive 2006/40/EC.