FQMS — Fuel Quality Monitoring System 2020.

EU Directive 98/70/EC requires Member States to verify compliance with the quality standards for petrol and diesel fuels and report the results to the EU Commission. In Austria, around 7.61 million tonnes of fuels were sold in 2020, of which 6.25 million tonnes (over 82 %) were diesel fuels. The Federal Environment Agency analysed samples from 206 petrol stations throughout Germany. One sample was taken per service station.In the case of petrol, a total of four deviations from the standard parameter for vapour pressure and one for the sum of aromatics were found, while all tested diesel samples were in line with the Directive.The maximum value of 10 mg/kg sulphur content for marine fuels in accordance with EU Directive 2009/30/EC was not respected in one of the six samples analysed.