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4. In regulation 3 (interpretation of requirements relating to petrol and diesel fuel), for paragraph (2) to the end substitute—
“(2) Unless it is petrol to which paragraph (5) applies, petrol complies with the winter petrol requirement if its composition and content meet the environmental specifications in Annex I of the Directive, but with the qualification that the requirement of the parameter “Vapour pressure, summer period” does not apply.
(3) Unless it is petrol to which paragraph (5) applies, petrol complies with the summer petrol requirement if its composition and content meet the environmental specifications in Annex I of the Directive, but with the qualification that it may have a vapour pressure not exceeding 70 kPa.
(4) Diesel fuel complies with the diesel fuel requirement if its composition and content meet the environmental specifications in Annex II of the Directive.
(5) This paragraph applies to super unleaded petrol sold at a filling station before 1st January 2014 if, in the calendar year prior to which it is sold, the total amount of petrol and diesel fuel sold at that filling station was not less than 3 million litres.
(6) In a case where paragraph (5) applies, super unleaded petrol will not comply with a specified requirement unless, in addition to the requirements of paragraphs (2) or (3), it has—
(a)an oxygen content of no more than 2.7% by volume; and
(b)an ethanol content of no more than 5% by volume.
(7) In this regulation “super unleaded petrol” means petrol that has—
(a)a research octane number of not less than 97 measured in accordance with the test method specified in Annex I of the Directive; and
(b)a motor octane number of not less than 86 measured in accordance with the test method specified in Annex I of the Directive.”
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