AREA’s main objectives are to support and to initiate activities to promote the industry and its high standards of quality, in order to serve the users' interest in a safe and uninterrupted usage of efficient refrigeration and air conditioning equipment, and to create and to maintain a favourable business climate for the refrigeration and air conditioning contractors, in terms of quality, safety, employment, fair competition and profitability, within the European Economic Area.

AREA has the mission of protecting the interests, and helping to improve the achievements, of the refrigeration and air conditioning installation and contracting industry, at European level, in the following matters:

• vocational education/training and related certification,
• technical evolution : technology, quality, safety, energy efficiency, codes & standards,
• concern for the environment,
• dissemination of information,
• legal affairs and regulations,
• commercial issues.