Its a never ending story with any regulations for any trade, and from what I've heard the government are allowing fridge and aircon associations to force the hand of users of refrigeration processes. To only use fridge/aircon companies that are members of these associations, whether you've served these users for years, you will no longer be able to carryon doing so unless you join these third party industries that disguise themselves as leadership and technical associations.

This will mean ongoing assessments, renewing licences that are granted to members to carryout fridge work, having to buy more equipment (that you might only use once a year), renewable anual subscriptions, only being allowed to use their inventry forms and stationary, and and having to spend at least one day a year to go out with an area engineer to have your jobs inspected. It will be like CORGI/Gas Safe, HIPS, NICEIC, and the ECA, just being qualified and having the CITB/C&G won't be enough. Its about time the unions or a petition is made against such implementations of these idealist ideas. No good will come from it, except for the associations themselves.