Breach of the environmental rules for servicing refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment (Art. 82⁴)

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We received a warning rather than a fine. Is there anything to do?

A warning under part 1 carries no monetary amount, but it is a recorded sanction. Its practical effect is that a later identical act becomes repeated conduct and attracts a fine of 150 GEL. It is worth checking now that the facts and the equipment identified in it are stated correctly.

How is the fine under part 3 calculated?

It is 0.1 GEL for every leaked gram, so the total follows directly from the mass. At the threshold of the part — 1,000 grams — that is 100 GEL, and each further gram adds another 0.1 GEL. The article puts no ceiling on this component, so the figure keeps rising with the mass.

Who is fined — the service contractor or the operator of the equipment?

Article 82⁴ does not name a category of person; it describes the conduct. In practice the protocol follows whoever bore the requirement of the regulation for that equipment, which is established from the service contract, the works acts and the maintenance records rather than from the article itself.

Can the recorded leak mass be challenged?

Yes, and under part 3 it is usually the most productive line, because the fine is entirely a function of grams. The questions that matter are how the mass was determined, what documents it rests on, and whether the same underlying data supports a lower figure.

4 min·22 Aug 2026

What Article 82⁴ covers

Article 82⁴ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia deals with breaching or failing to comply with the technical regulation on the environmental requirements for servicing heat pumps, air conditioning equipment and refrigeration equipment. The article separates two quite different situations. The first is a loss of hermetic integrity in the refrigeration system of stationary equipment that has caused refrigerant to leak. The second is a breach of any other requirement of the same regulation, unrelated to hermetic integrity. These two routes lead to sharply different amounts, which is why the characterisation written into the protocol matters to you as much as the underlying fact does. A case that reads as a small leak and a case that reads as a documentation failure can differ by an order of magnitude in what you owe. The stationary systems this provision reaches sit in supermarkets, cold stores, hotels and production facilities, and are usually maintained by an outside contractor, so more than one party may have an interest in how the protocol is worded.

Breach of the environmental rules for servicing refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment (Art. 82⁴)