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The case for Gothenburg

The UN-ECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, which last year celebrated its 25th Anniversary, marked the first international response to the concerns over the impacts of long ra...

CONCAWE Review – Spring 2006

Volume 15, number 1: When CONCAWE was established 43 years ago, the oil companies’ objective was to create a framework within which they could jointly carry out technical studies in areas of common...

EU-wide BAT—an expensive suit that doesn’t fit everybody!

The ‘Clean Air For Europe’ (CAFE) programme, carried out over the past three years by the EU Commission’s DG Environment, has resulted in the recent publication of the ‘Thematic Strategy on...

Impacts of air pollutant caps on climate

Air pollution is a major issue in an increasing number of megacities around the world, and new policies to address urban air pollution are likely to be enacted in many developing countries irrespectiv...

Occupational risks to hearing reviewed

With the publication of CONCAWE report 5/05 an extensive work programme on the factors potentially affecting the hearing of petroleum industry workers has recently been completed by the CONCAWE Hea...

CONCAWE Review – Autumn 2005

Volume 14, number 2: 2005 has been a year of positive developments for CONCAWE. Through its heavy involvement in the development of the CAFE programme and in the Fuels Directive review process, our As...

PAH content of diesel fuels

Using the EU-refinery model introduced in the previous article, CONCAWE has evaluated the potential consequences of a reduction of the diesel fuel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) specification...

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Road fuels desulphurisation

For many years CONCAWE has maintained a model of the European refining system in order to be able to evaluate the potential impact of major changes, such as more stringent product specifications or sh...

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The potential of biofuels for energy and GHG savings in road transport

In December 2003, a consortium of JRC, EUCAR and CONCAWE published the first version of a comprehensive Well-to-Wheels (WTW) analysis of fuels and powertrains in the European context, focusing on ener...

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Updated CONCAWE guidance for classification and labelling of petroleum substances

The 29th Amendment to Technical Progress (ATP) to the Dangerous Substances Directive (DSD) was published in 2004, and introduced specific changes to the hazard classification (Annex 1 entries) for Pet...

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A European framework for water quality

In October 2000 the European Commission published an all-encompassing Directive for water. Five years on from the first concept, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) was intended to replace a patchw...

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Automotive PAH emissions

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emissions have been of concern for many years due to potential carcinogenic effects, with several individual PAHs having been classified by IARC as either 'probab...

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ERTRAC—European Road Transport Research Advisory Council

Road transport is one of the greatest conundrums challenging the sustainability of our lifestyles today. Mobility is essential—for the individual, for commerce and for industry. Indeed, the incre...

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European cross-country pipelines

The yearly CONCAWE report on the safety and environmental performance of European cross-country pipelines is complete and will be published soon. The data collected for 2003 from 65 companies and o...

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CONCAWE Review – Spring 2005

Volume 14, issue 1: ERTRAC was established in 2002 as an ‘Advisory Council’ with a view to improving European research in the road transport sector. Its first objectives were to develop a shared V...

Cost Benefit Analysis

As our society becomes more sophisticated, complex and integrated, societal issues are increasingly interlinked and these relationships are also better recognised. Legislation has to follow suit...