The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) Regulations 1994

Equivalent standards

11.—(1) Nothing in regulation 6 or 7 shall prevent a person distributing or selling any motor fuel in circumstances in which he could do so without contravening that regulation were there substituted for the references in regulation 5 to provisions in a relevant British Standard Specification references to equivalent provisions in a corresponding standard.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, “corresponding standard”, in relation to a relevant British Standard Specification, means—

(a) a standard or code of practice of a national standards body or equivalent body of any EEA State;

(b) any international standard recognised for use as a standard by any EEA State; or

(c) a technical specification or code of practice which, whether mandatory or not, is recognised for use as a standard by a public authority of any EEA State,

where the standard, code of practice, international standard or technical specification provides, in relation to motor fuel, a level of control of air pollution equivalent to that provided by that British Standard Specification.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a reference to a relevant British Standard Specification, is a reference to BS 4040:1988, BS 7800:1992, BS EN 228:1993 and BS EN 590:1993, as modified (in each case) by regulation 4.