NETHERLANDS: DECREE ON FLAVOUR RECOVERY APPLIANCES AT PETROL STATIONS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/NOTIF.95.210. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: NETHERLANDS. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2) 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Appliance used during the supply of petrol to motorized road-transport vehicles. It collects flavour escaping from the fuel tank of the motorized vehicle and returns it to the subterranean tank of the petrol station. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Decree on the Introduction of Flavour Recovery Appliances (Stage II) at Petrol Stations (18 pages). 6. Description of content: Requirements regarding appliances used to return flavour which escape from the petrol tank during the supply of petrol to motorized road-transport vehicles to the subterranean tank of the petrol station. The Decree provides for phased introduction whereby all stations in question shall be equipped with such appliances by no later than 1 July 1999. The system shall return at least 75 per cent of the flavour escaping from the petrol tanks of motorized vehicles back to the subterranean tank. 7. Objective and rationale: The measures in question form part of a countrywide programme which provides for the reduction of the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) (KW8-2000). The emissions of VOC are reduced in order to curtail the production of ozone, among other things. In this context, the implementation of the Stage II flavour recovery scheme helps to reduce the emission of the blacklisted substance benzene. 8. Relevant documents: (a) Decree on Petrol Stations, (Environmental Management Act) (b) Decree on Repair Establishment for Motorized Vehicles, (Environmental Management Act) (c) Decree on Air Quality - Benzene. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 January 1996. 10. Final date for comments: 31 August 1995. (209)

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