Letter expressing opposition to amending the current text of Annex 4 on fuel quality.

OICA proposal to amend document GRPE/2015/9 (which provides recommendations for the minimum quality of market fuels (i.e. gasoline and diesel) that should be introduced concurrently with corresponding emissions standards). This proposal clarifies that no Contracting Party would be obligated to accept any fuel that does not meet its local standards.

The objective of this document is to provide recommendations for the minimum quality of market fuels (i.e. gasoline and diesel) that should be introduced concurrently with the corresponding emissions standards. They complement the motor vehicle and NRMM pollutant emission standards that a country or a region may be considering to introduce.

Revised recommendations by AECC, CLEPA, EUROMOT, and OICA, pursuant to discussions during the GRPE-68 session, for minimum quality attributes of market fuels (i.e. gasoline and diesel) to be introduced “in parallel, and at the same time, to complement the level of motor vehicle and non-road mobile machinery pollutant emission standards that a country or region may be considering to introduce”.

Text as adopted by the Working Party on Pollution and Energy (GRPE) at its 65th session to add a reference to and revise the title of Annex 4 (fuel quality parameters) in the main body of the Consolidated Resolution on the Construction of Vehicles (R.E.3).

Suggested changes to the proposal to amend Annex 4 (market fuel quality) of the Consolidated Resolution RE3