# AA_SummaryNotesByYear

Notes:
As from end of July 2015, the responsible Organisation for the implementation of the Fuel Quality Directive Monitoring system and reporting for Malta is no longer the Malta Resources Authority (MRA) but the Regulator for Energy and Water Services (REWS).   In addition in year 2015 Malta followed EN 14274 statistical Model C. All the petrol samples were found to comply with EN 228 specifications with no exceedances. The majority of the diesel samples were found to comply with EN 590 specifications since only one diesel sample was found to have the sulphur content outside the maximum tolerance limit of EN ISO  20846 test. Actions taken are explained in details in worksheet diesel (1) and diesel (2).


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The petrol service stations where the petrol DVPE limit was exceeded received a warning letter of the Dutch authorities. A fewe of thes stations will be resampled next year


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Po przeanalizowaniu wyników kontroli, w porównaniu z rokiem ubiegłym, ilość próbek niespełniających wymagań dla paliw ciekłych była na zbliżonym poziomie. Ilość nominalnych przekroczeń norm była nieznacznie większa niż w roku ubiegłym, jednakże w dużej mierze były to wyniki, które po uwzględnieniu tolerancji pomiaru próbki kontrolnej zostały zakwalifikowane jako spełniające wymagania. Po ich uwzględnieniu można stwierdzić nieznaczną poprawę wyników badań laboratoryjnych szczególnie odnośnie benzyny RON 95. Odnosząc się do kontroli jakości biopaliw ciekłych należy podkreślić, że w 2015 r. nie zbadano żadnej próbki zarówno B100 jak i B20, z uwagi na brak tego gatunku biopaliwa ciekłego w ofercie na polskich stacjach paliwowych.
Objaśnienie do sekcji "TEST METHODS and ANALYSIS": w arkuszach Petrol (1)-(3+4) i Diesel (1)-(1+2):  W komórkach "No. Samples" i "Values" wpisano dane dotyczące rzeczywistych przekroczeń dopuszczalnych norm dla poszczególnych parametrów, natomiast w polach "Details/action taken" dodatkowo opisano kontrole gdy próbka podstawowa nie spełniała normy, natomiast paliwo zostało ostatecznie zakwalifikowane jako zgodne z wymaganiami. Najczęstszym powodem takiej sytuacji było badanie (na pisemny wniosek kontrolowanego) tzw. próbki kontrolnej tej samej partii paliwa i otrzymanie wyniku zgodnego z wymaganiami.


Notes:
The minimum number of samples/year set for small countries, considered in previous years was 300 samples.
Given the lower quantities of petrol I.O. 98 sold, and according with the European Standard EN 14274, the minimum number of analyzes  consider for this product was reduced from 100/year to 8, being the total number of analyzes/year reduced to 208. Due to the transfer of competencies for the execution of Fuel Quality Monitoring System (FQMS), to the National Authority for the Oil Market (ENMC), in 2015, from March to December, this entity decided to conduct a total of 949 analyzes at service stations (635 in summer and winter periods; 314 in the intermediate period (April and October), which were not considered in FQMS).
Exceeded tolerance limits constitute an infraction punishable by fine, which involves reporting to the responsible authority for prosecution.


Notes:
Besides the required analyses, the density of each petrol sample had been determined. This data was used for recalculation of the sold litres to tonnes of each petrol grade.


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It has been used model A, large country.
All grades have been sampled with minimum 100 samples, even Gna 98 RON with less than 10% compsumption
Samples taken in service station and in storage depots, no samples taken at refineries
Vapor presuure for gasolines also measured in winter sesion (only summer mandatory)


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The Swedish alternative system means that the Swedish Petroleum and Biofuels Institute compiles this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, based on fuel quality data at the depots (terminals),  including all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market.  The Swedish Transport Agency verifies the data of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency also, as an assessment of the national monitoring system's equivalency to the CEN system (crosschecking), carries out a minor sampling of petrol and diesel at actual fuel dispensing sites by the help of an accredited test laboratory. 

No breaches of the limit values in 2015 has been found. The samples from the fuel dispensing sites (crosschecking) in 2015 also showed good equivalency for both Petrol and Diesel. 

The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet.


Notes:
The UK has generally seen good compliance with the requirement of the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). The only exceedance seen with diesel was a single sample that was marginal above the maximum permissible density. For petrol there were 6 exceedances of the oxygen limit for the E5 standard (2.7% v/v) that is sold in the UK, however these were all below 3.7% v/v that is the limit in the FQD so are therefore not in exceedance of the Directive. The Super Unleaded grade of petrol exceeded the aromatic limits on three occasions. This was only by a small amount (<1% v/v) and given the small sales of this grade of petrol unlikely to have significant environmental impact. The most common exceedance across the petrol grades was with the vapour pressure limit. Again, it was normally only by a small margin and was not consistently so, therefore unlikely to have had a significant impact on air quality.


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There were neither additional parameters measured nor any excluded. In total 3 parameters exceeded the tolerance limits. Diesel: sulphur (11.7 ppm); Petrol RON 91: 2 x vapour pressure (62.7/71.4 kPa). It seems reasonable that both exceeding occurred do to mixtures of winter and summer grades. The total sales of RON 91 are decreasing constantly so at some low-frequented filling stations some amounts of winter-grade (with max. 90kPa) are carried over into the summer months before consummation. All three samples were reported to the responsible ministry where further actions were carried out (penalty etc.)


Notes:
1. In 2016 were taken and tested 1025 samples of liquid fuels of which:
- 265 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 132 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98) and 133 samples of diesel fuel. The number of taken samples was proportionate to the consumption by regions. Samples taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested only in the permanently sited laboratory.
- 760 samples for the purposes of the planned republican control and of inspections carried out together with supervisory bodies from other State institutions, including 298 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98), 454 samples of diesel fuel and 8 samples of other fuels subject to control, according to the national legislation: fuel for non-road mobile machinery and tractors, biodiesel, heavy fuel oil, gasoil for industrial and utility purposes. The samples of petrol and diesel fuel taken for the purpose of the republican control were tested in a mobile laboratory. The equipment of the mobile laboratories is mostly for express testing methods. When in a mobile laboratory non-compliance was established for one or more parameters, testing was repeated in the permanently sited laboratory.
In 2016 the consumption of petrol RON>=98 was about 7% of the total quality of petrol on the market.
The marketed fuels were mainly produced by one Bulgarian refinery. Small amounts of them were imported from abroad.
2. Besides the parameters, referred to in the Directive and in the Report Templates, most samples were tested also for other parameters like: Density and Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point and Distillation residue, for petrol; Cetane index, Flash point, Water content and Cold Filter Plugging Point for diesel fuel.
3. For any established non-compliance were taken enforcement actions, according to the Clean Air Act, the Law of Renewable energy sources, as well as the Regulation on the liquid fuels quality requirements, conditions, order and way of their control.
When establishing infringements, control bodies prohibit placing on the market, distribution, transportation or use of liquid fuels and order liquid fuels to be withdrawn from the market.
The deviations from the quality requirements by the parameters given in “Methods&Limits” in the present Report, for samples taken for the purposes of FQMS, as well as the imposed sanctions for these infringements, are described in Templates “Petrol (2)” and “Petrol (1+2)”.
In 18 of all taken petrol samples was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of Directorate General “Quality Control of liquid fuels” (DG QCLF), in accordance with BDS EN ISO 3405:2011. The limit value of this parameter is max 210ᵒС, R=6.78 (for result below 260ᵒС), the expanded limit value is max 214ᵒС. The deviations were within the range of 217.6ᵒС to 297.4ᵒС. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
In 44 of all taken diesel fuel samples was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Flash point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 2719:2004. The limit value of this parameter is over 55ᵒС, R=3.7, the expanded limit value is over 52.8ᵒС. The deviations were within the range of 40ᵒС to 52.5ᵒС. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
In 9 of the diesel fuel samples taken for the purposes of the republican control was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Sulphur content”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 20846:2012. The limit value of this parameter is 10 mg/kg, R=2.2, the expanded limit value is 11.3 mg/kg. The deviations were within the range of 15.6 to 50.9 mg/kg. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
4. There were no regions in the country not to be covered by the monitoring program.


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According to the national legislation which transposed the Fuel Quality Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of any exceedance of prescribed fuel quality. Enforcement is under responsibility of Market Inspection (Ministry of Economy, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 130/11, 47/14).According to the national legislation which transposed the FQM Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of not submitting data to the National database established by Croatian Agency for the Environment and Nature. Enforcement is under responsibility of Environmental Inspection (Ministry of Environmental and Nature protection, Republic of Croatia).Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 130/11, 47/14). In 2015 fourteen (14) Petrol samples (UNLEADED PETROL EUROSUPER RON 95) were analysed for MMT.


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1. Some other parameters for diesel and petrol that are not required to be reported, have also been measured. For example, water content, distillation at 250 and 350oC, CFPP point and cetane index are also measured in diesel samples. Furthermore, parameters like distillation at 70oC, FBP an d residue are also measured for almost all petrol samples. Vapour Pressure is also measured for winter period (max 80kPa) but is not included in this report as it is not required.
2. Fuel grade of Unleaded Petrol 100 octane, was not marketed in Cyprus. 
3. Summer period is from 16/4-15/10 and winter period from 16/10-15/4. Transition period from summer to winter and vice versa is set to 6 weeks. Some of the vapour pressure measurements "appear to be out of specifications" according to this template because the measurements of these samples were within the transition period.  
4. One case of off specs in LS diesel was found to sell in retail. The fuel was immediately out of sale and the responsible person/company faced penal prosecution.


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The fuel quality monitoring has been conducted in accordance with FQMS of European standard EN 14274 :2013 and its national Czech version ČSN EN 14274:2013 with the use of regional model C, which corresponds to the Czech national legislation and the Czech standards for petrol and diesel (ČSN EN 228:2013 and ČSN EN 590: 2014). The sampling was performed by the Czech Trade Inspection Authority (CTIA) in collaboration with Accredited Inspection and Certification Authority SGS for laboratory testing of all samples of liquid and gas fuels. This controlling process of quality fuels is coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in accordance with national legislation and Directive 98/70/EC as amended in the specification for petrol and diesel fuels, which are sold on the Czech market. 
The total number of the fuel quality samples has been checked in 2549 samples and from this number were inconvenient 28 samples, i.e. 1.1% in the year 2016. In another fuel grade, e.g. the deterioration of the quality of Ethanol E85 by 14.3%, which corresponded to its decreased market power on the Czech market in 2016. In comparison with the previous year 2015, the fuel quality was improved, only slightly. In 2015 were insufficient 32 samples of the fuel i.e. 1.2% from the total number of fuel samples, which were sampled in 2723 items.


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In 2016 all samples (petrol and diesel) are taken at service stations.
All samples are in complience with the limits in the directive, except some petrol samples which is outside the 95 % tolerance limit for Vapour Pressure (DVPE) and aromatics, and som diesel samples which is outside the 95 % tolerance limit for Sulphur.

To examine the causes for non-compliance the laboratory who carries out sampling and analysing for the Danish Petroleum Association (eof) will make a double sampling (0.25 and 1 liter bottles) for testing RVP in summer 2017, to check if the sample amount has an effect on the results. Additionaly this laboratory will make some double sampling for testing aromatic to compare its results with results from the laboratory at Shell Refinery.

Numbers of samples taken in 2016: 
RON 92: 99 samples
RON 95: 100 samples
RON 99: 4 samples
Diesel: 100 samples.

Denmark has been granted Artic Waiver. 
The mean ethanol content in petrol-samples (RON 92, RON 95 and RON 99) was 4,78 %, 4,81 % and 4,87 %. The mean FAME-content in diesel was 3,34 %.


Notes:
Monitoring, fuel grades and sampling: 
Sampling was done in the whole country according to the sampling plan following the guidelines of a standard EN 14274:2013 model A. Country was divided to 3 macro-regions with about same sales volume and variability factor.  (See details on:  Description of National Fuel Quality Monitoring System )
All samples were taken in retail sites in all macro regions and in different time. The division of the consumption based on figures of the totals consumption of gasoline of 95 and 98 octane grades per macro region. Altogether 50 petrol  RON 95 octane, 50 petrol RON 98 octane and 46 diesel samples were taken from macro region 1. The corresponding figures for macro region 2 were 38, 38 and 45. For macro region 3 the figures were 30, 29 and 30.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Fuel grades investigated were unleaded RON 95 (95 E10) and RON 98 (98 E5) octane sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) petrol and sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) diesel fuel. These fuels were furthermore divided into summer and winter grade. Since the sales volume for RON 99 octane petrol was small (less than 2%) it was excluded from the actual sampling. Also, there was no quality under RON 95 octane on the market. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The sampling aims to comply, when applicable, with the requirements of standard EN 14275:2013. The sampling was done by trained personnel. One litre metal containers and five litre plastic containers approved for this purpose were used as sampling containers.
 
Breaches of tolerance limit: Petrol 95 E10 (summer grade): Three aromatics values ( 36,440, 36,400 and 36,220 % v/v) were above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) and the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). No reasons were found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade): One RON (94,400) was below the minimum limit value (95) and the minimum tolerance limit (94,587). No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. Two aromatics values (36,980 and 36,220 % v/v) were above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) and the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). No reason was found and special enforcement action was not deemed necessary. Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): Seven aromatics values ( 38,430, 37,890, 37,890, 37,040, 36,480, 36,430 and 36,120 % v/v) were above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) and the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). No reason was found and special enforcement action was not deemed necessary. Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade): Five aromatics values ( 37,480, 36,520, 36,520, 36,360 and 36,165 % v/v) were above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) and the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). No reason was found and special enforcement action was not deemed necessary.

Observed concentrations between the limit values and the tolerance limits: Petrol 95 E10 (summer grade): The lowest distillation value at 100 ºC (45,133 % v/v) was below the minimum limit value (46,0 % v/v) but within the minimum tolerance limit (43,6 % v/v). Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade): The highest oxygen content (3,740 % m/m) was above the limit value (3,7 % m/m) but within the maximum tolerance limit (3,9 % m/m). The highest sulphur content (11,518 mg/kg) was above the maximum limit value (10 mg/kg) but within the maximum tolerance limit (11,6 mg/kg). Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): The lowest distillation value at 100 ºC (45,077 % v/v) was below the minimum limit value (46,0 % v/v) but within the minimum tolerance limit (43,6 % v/v). The highest oxygen content (2,780 % m/m) was above the limit value (2,7 % m/m) but within the maximum tolerance limit (2,9 % m/m). The highest sulphur content (10,456 mg/kg) was above the maximum limit value (10 mg/kg) but within the maximum tolerance limit (11,6 mg/kg). Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade):  The lowest distillation value at 100 ºC (43,909 % v/v) was below the minimum limit value (46,0 % v/v) but within the minimum tolerance limit (43,6 % v/v). The highest oxygen content (2,750 % m/m) was above the limit value (2,7 % m/m) but within the maximum tolerance limit (2,9 % m/m). The highest sulphur content (11,522 mg/kg) was above the maximum limit value (10 mg/kg) but within the maximum tolerance limit (11,6 mg/kg). Diesel (winter grade): The lowest cetane number (49,5) was below the minimum limit value (51,0) but within the minimum tolerance limit (48,5).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              During the reporting year 2016 there were 17 cases, where the limit value and the tolerance limit for aromatics was exceeded. In 2015 this number was 48. The highest value 38,4 % v/v was about 7 % higher than the maximum tolerance limit value 36,0 % v/v. In all exceedance cases the fuel supplier received a request from the Customs officials to give explanation to observed anomalies. All fuel suppliers provided answers including e.g. information about the fuel supply chain (transport) and/or fuel analyses from the refinery or terminals. It was concluded that the time lag between sampling and actual laboratory analysis could explain deviations at least partly. There were also changes in the analytical methods which could have affected the results. The distillation limit value and the tolerance limit were not exceeded in samples.  In aromatics case the evaporation of lighter hydrocar-bons could be the explanatory factor. However, no conclusive reasons were found for the non-compliant petrol samples.  Furthermore, no special enforcement actions were deemed necessary. It has been possible to shorten the time lag between sampling and analysis because the new laboratory equipment was fully operational. Preliminary results for 2017  show further improvements in aromatics.


Notes:
Pour les carburants SP95 et SP98, il a été décidé de prélever le carburant disponible dans les stations-service à contrôler. Ce choix est justifié par le développement sur le marché du SP95-E10 qui remplace progressivement le SP95 ou le SP98 en station-service. Les contrôles concernant le RON et le MON sont ceux qui s’appliquent respectivement au carburant prélevé.
Pour les carburants SP95, SP98, SP95-E10 et E85, les analyses suivantes sont faites en supplément des analyses exigées par la directive relative à la qualité des carburants  :
Aspect (Inspection visuelle)
Masse volumique à 15°C (NF EN ISO 3675, NF EN ISO 12185)
Distillation à 70 °C (NF EN ISO 3405)
Point final d’ébullition (NF EN ISO 3405)
Résidu de distillation (NF EN ISO 3405)
Stabilité à l’oxydation (NF EN ISO 7536)
Teneur en gommes actuelles (lavées au solvant) (NF EN ISO 6246)
Corrosion à la lame de cuivre (3 h à 50°C) (NF EN ISO 2160)

Pour le gazole, les analyses suivantes sont faites en supplément des analyses exigées par la directive relative à la qualité des carburants  :
Indice de cétane calculé (EN ISO 4264)
Masse volumique à 15°C (EN ISO 3675 – EN ISO 12185)
Aspect (Inspection visuelle)
Point d’éclair (EN ISO 2719)
Résidu de carbone (EN ISO 10370)
Teneur en cendres (EN ISO 6245)
Teneur en eau (EN ISO 12937)
Contamination totale (EN 12662)
Corrosion à la lame de cuivre (EN ISO 2160)
Stabilité à l’oxydation – insoluble totaux à 95°C (EN ISO 12205)
Stabilité à l'oxydation – Rancimat (EN 15751), Variation de l’indice d’acide à 115°C (XP M 07-1342)
Pouvoir lubrifiant, diamètre de marque d’usure corrigée (EN ISO 12156-1)
Viscosité à 40°C (EN ISO 3104)
Distillation – condensé à 250°C et à 350°C (EN ISO 3405)
Température limite de filtrabilité (EN 116)

Compte-tenu de l’éloignement des départements d’outre-mer français, l’organisation des contrôles s’effectue par zone  :
zone 1  : Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane
zone 2  : La Réunion
Au vu des difficultés et des coûts de mise en œuvre des contrôles dans ces zones (prélèvements et expéditions des échantillons en métropole…), il a été décidé de contrôler chaque zone tous les deux ans. En 2016, la zone 2 a été contrôlée.


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In 2016 an amount of 56,138,038 tons of petrol and diesel fuel has been sold in Germany. 18,237,749 tons of these as petrol (32.5 %). 1243 samples have been taken in total (842 petrol, 401 diesel).  The fuel quality in Germany is generally good, only a few cases of non-compliance have been detected:  1226 of the samples show no exceedance of the limit values, however, of these, only 17 were found to be non-compliant when taking into account the tolerance value limits. In these cases, revision letters have been issued. Exceedances have been found in vapour pressure, oxygen content and sulphur content of the fuel. 
Details are presented in the following sheets “Petrol” and “Diesel” of this template.
In case of exceeding the tolerance value on any of the parameters it must be determined who is responsible for the insufficient quality of the fuel in question. A fine will be imposed if the distributor can be proven guilty of fraud or negligence. 

Fuel grades with smaller quantities sold:
0.837 Mio t of RON 98 fuel were sold in 2016. This is a market share of 4.6 %. For this reason the sampling of RON 98 comprises a smaller amount of samples.


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The highest percentage of petrol sales is held by unleaded petrol (RON > 95), while super unleaded (RON>98) follows. Lead Replacement Petrol has a negligible cut of the fuel market, while regular petrol is not marketed at all.   It was observed in certain occasions that  the FAME content in Diesel samples exceeds the limiting value of 7% V/V. However no further action was taken due to fact that the rest of the sample characteristics were within legal limits as well as the fact that the fuel dispencing pumps were  labelled as Diesel B10. One diesel sample was found containing other lighter hydrocarbon products. It's density was determined as 811,0 kg/m3, while the minimum value for diesel is 820,0 kg/m3, according to national legislation. The test report has been forwarded to the competent authority (DEDAK) for legal action.


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Samples are taken by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association at service stations and are analysed by ITS Testing Services (UK) Ltd.  Results are reported to the Department by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association.  100 samples in total were tested during the year 50 in summer and 50 in winter.   There were 2 Vapour Pressure exceedances.


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In 2016 no changes have been made to the monitoring system; sampling were taken according the Statistical Model A of EN 14274 (large country framework, five macro-regions). A total of 200 petrol samples and 200 diesel fuel samples, split in the winter and summer period, were analysed. Three petrol samples exceeded tolerance limits (RON, MON)  and four disel samples exceeded tolerance limits (Distillation 95%).


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The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority checked365 fuel samples per 2016 year.170 petrol samples were taken from which 100 petrol samples were for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the test results there were not found non-compliance in petrol samples. Furthermore 195 diesel samples per 2016 year were taken from which 100 samples were  for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the results there were found no incompliance in diesel samples, taken for fuel quality monitoring system.


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For summer period 2 samples of fuel grade 95  and 3 samples of fuel grade 98 exeeded the tolerance limits for Vapour pressure (summer period normal): 3x61.4/62.3/64.5. Furthermore 2 samples of fuel grade 95 and 1 sample of 98 exeeded the tolerance limit foroxygene: 3.1/2x3.7 and 1 sample of fuel grade 98  exceeded the tolerance limit of Manganese: 3.4. An item of written command by the operating company is required.


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A total of 208 fuel samples were analysed in year 2016. All the diesel samples were found to comply with the EN 590 specifications with no exceedances. The majority of the unleaded petrol samples were found to comply with the EN 228 specifications since only one sample was found to have the Vapour Pressure outside the maximum tolerance limit of the EN 13106-01 test.  Actions taken are explained in details in worksheet Petrol (1) and Petrol (1+2).


Notes:
The petrol service stations where the petrol DVPE limit was exceeded received a warning letter of the Dutch authorities. A few of thes stations will be resampled next year


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W 2016 roku tylko dwie próbki oleju napędowego nie spełniały doduszanych norm  (wyniki dla parametru 95 % (V/V) destyluje do tempertatury). W przypadku badań prób benzyn było to dziesięć prób niezgodnych z wymaganiami (wyniki dla różnych parametrów, jednakże odnotowano też przypadki gdzie nawet dwa parametry nie spełniały wymagań w jednej próbce paliwa).
We wszystkich powyższych przypadkach skierowano zawiadomienia do Prezesa Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki oraz Prokuratury.


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The minimum number of samples/year set for small countries, considered in previous years was 300 samples.
Given the lower quantities of petrol I.O. 98 sold, and according with the European Standard EN 14274, the minimum number of analyzes  consider for this product was reduced from 100/year to 8, being the total number of analyzes/year reduced to 208. Due to the transfer of competencies for the execution of Fuel Quality Monitoring System (FQMS), to the National Authority for the Oil Market (ENMC), in 2016, this entity decided to conduct a total of  1559 analyzes at service stations (1324 in summer and winter periods; 235 in the intermediate period (April and October), which were not considered in FQMS).
Exceeded tolerance limits constitute an infraction punishable by fine, which involves reporting to the responsible authority for prosecution.


Notes:
During year 2016, within the qualitative and quantitative monitoring system for petrol and diesel, all parameters included in the environmental specifications set by Directive 98/70/EC were planned to be measured. Other parameters than those included in the environmental specifications set by Directive 98/70/EC were not measured.


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The EFQMS has been run during 2016 according EN-14274 standard in the category of big country model A. 
Samples has been taken in service stations and in storage facilities in order to reach sample number required in model A.
Number of samples out of specification limits has been low with no negative trend in quality regarding previous years.


Notes:
The Swedish alternative system combines compilation of fuel quality data at the depots/terminals with the sampling of petrol and diesel at actual fuel dispensing sites. The latter is to guarantee the national monitoring systems equivalence to the CEN system. The reported data at the depots, that includes all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market, represents more than 98% of the sales of petrol and diesel in Sweden. The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet.

The Swedish Petroleum and Biofuels Institute compile the fuel quality data of at the depots (stockages) on behalf of The Swedish Transport Agency that verifies the data, of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency has not found any exceedances of the limit values at the depots/terminals in 2016. The data from the depots/terminals also showed good equivalency for both petrol and diesel with the samples from the actual fuel dispensing sites (crosschecking) in 2016.


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The UK has generally seen very good compliance with the requirement of the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). There has been a reduction in exceedances from the previous year's report (reporting year 2015) and in most cases it has only exceeded by a marginal amount. For petrol, there has been a significant reduction in vapour pressure exceedances with only three reported for each of the two grades. The exceedances of the oxygen limit were for the E5 standard that is sold in the UK which equates to 2.7% v/v. However, they were all below 3.7% v/v that is the limit in the FQD so are therefore not in exceedance of the Directive. The other exceedances were for aromatics, sulphur and research octane number, with these being very few in number and only outside limits by very small amounts. For diesel, there was again a marginal exceedance with regards density for one sample. There were four exceedances for sulphur, which has not been seen in previous year, but these were only by a very limited degree so not of specific concern. Overall, the number and level of exceedance seen has been extremely small, therefore, there is likely to have been no environmental impact as a result. As such, no enforcement action has been taken as a consequence of the breach in the limits.


Notes:
There were neither additional parameters measured nor any excluded. In total 1 parameter exceeded the tolerance limits (Diesel Winter - FAME 8,54% vol).


Notes:
1. In 2017 were taken and tested 1273 samples of liquid fuels of which:
- 241 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 119 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98) and 122 samples of diesel fuel. The number of taken samples was proportionate to the consumption by regions. Samples taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested only in the permanently sited laboratory.
- 1032 samples for the purposes of the planned republican control and of inspections carried out together with supervisory bodies from other State institutions, including 419 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98), 602 samples of diesel fuel and 11 samples of other fuels subject to control, according to the national legislation: fuel for non-road mobile machinery and tractors, biodiesel, heavy fuel oil, gasoil for industrial and utility purposes. The samples of petrol and diesel fuel taken for the purpose of the republican control were tested in a mobile laboratory. The equipment of the mobile laboratories is mostly for express testing methods. When in a mobile laboratory non-compliance was established for one or more parameters, testing was repeated in the permanently sited laboratory.
In 2017 the consumption of petrol RON>=98 was 7,4% of the total quality of petrol on the market.
The marketed fuels were mainly produced by one Bulgarian refinery. Small amounts of them were imported from abroad.
2. Besides the parameters, referred to in the Directive and in the Report Templates, most samples were tested also for other parameters like: Density and Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point and Distillation residue, for petrol; Cetane index, Flash point, Water content and Cold Filter Plugging Point for diesel fuel.
3. For any established non-compliance were taken enforcement actions, according to the Clean Air Act, the Law of Renewable energy sources, as well as the Regulation on the liquid fuels quality requirements, conditions, order and way of their control.
When establishing infringements, control bodies prohibit placing on the market, distribution, transportation or use of liquid fuels and order liquid fuels to be withdrawn from the market.
In 28 of all taken petrol samples was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of Directorate General “Quality Control of liquid fuels” (DG QCLF), in accordance with BDS EN ISO 3405:2011. The limit value of this parameter is max 210ᵒС, R=6.78 (for result below 260ᵒС), the expanded limit value is max 214ᵒС. The deviations were within the range of 214.4ᵒС to 284ᵒС. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
In 35 of all taken diesel fuel samples was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Flash point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 2719:2004. The limit value of this parameter is over 55ᵒС, R=3.7, the expanded limit value is over 52.8ᵒС. The deviations were within the range of 40ᵒС to 52.5ᵒС. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
In 3 of the diesel fuel samples taken for the purposes of the republican control was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Sulphur content”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 20846:2012. The limit value of this parameter is 10 mg/kg, R=2.2, the expanded limit value is 11.3 mg/kg. The deviations were within the range of 12.2 to 152 mg/kg. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
4. There were no regions in the country not to be covered by the monitoring program.


Notes:
According to the national legislation which transposed the Fuel Quality Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of any exceedance of prescribed fuel quality. Enforcement is under responsibility of Market Inspection (Ministry of Economy, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 130/11, 47/14, 61/17).According to the national legislation which transposed the FQM Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of not submitting data to the National database established by Croatian Agency for Environment and Nature. Enforcement is under responsibility of Environmental Inspection (Ministry of Environment and Energy, Republic of Croatia).Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 130/11, 47/14, 61/17).


Notes:
1. Some other parameters for diesel and petrol that are not required to be reported, have also been measured. For example, water content, distillation at 250 and 350oC, CFPP point and cetane index are also measured in diesel samples. Furthermore, parameters like distillation at 70oC, FBP and residue are also measured for many petrol samples. Vapour Pressure is also measured for winter period (max 80kPa) but is not included in this report as it is not required.
2. Fuel grade of Unleaded Petrol 100 octane, was not marketed in Cyprus in 2017. 
3. Summer period is from 16/4-15/10 and winter period is from 16/10-15/4. Transition period from summer to winter and vice versa is set to 6 weeks. Some of the vapour pressure measurements "appear to be out of specifications" according to this template because the measurements of these samples were within the transition period.  
4. After the transition period gasoline samples were found to be out of specs, in 5 samples. The fuels were immediately out of sale and the responsible company faced penal prosecution.


Notes:
The controlling process of the fuel monitoring quality is coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic in accordance with the national legislation and Directive 98/70/EC as amended in the specification for petrol and diesel fuels, which were sold on the Czech fuel market in 2017. 
The fuel quality monitoring has been conducted in accordance with FQMS of the European standard EN 14274:2013 and its national Czech version ČSN EN 14274:2013 with the use of regional model C, in consistent with Czech national legislation and Czech standards for petrol and diesel (ČSN EN 228:2013 and ČSN EN 590:2014). 
The total number of the fuel quality samples by the Directive 98/70/EC has been checked in 2318 samples. It means 1031 samples of petrol and 1283 samples of diesel, plus 4 samples of artic clima in winter time, it means 1287 samples of diesel, in sum. The total number of the essential fuel quality samples has been checked in 2318 samples. In the comparison with the year 2016 was the requirement of customers in the Czech market for biofuels with higher bio component reduced to a minimum as for example FAME – 100% biodiesel and blended diesel (mixed diesel fuel) were not purchased on the Czech market in 2017. Ethanol 85 was purchased only in a very low quantities. However, purchases of gaseous fuels have increased, namely LPG and CNG, respectively, LNG. The number of additional fuel samples included 11 samples of Ethanol 85, for gaseous fuel grade, it means 40 samples of CNG – Natural Gas and 301 samples of LPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas. The total number of fuel samples was checked in 2670 pieces at the service stations in the whole country. It means with the sum of all additional required fuels of 352 samples (like E85, LPG and CNG).


Notes:
In 2017 all samples (petrol and diesel) are taken at service stations.
All samples are in complience with the limits in the directive, except some petrol samples which are outside the 95 % tolerance limit for Vapour Pressure (DVPE) and aromatics, and two diesel samples which are outside the 95 % tolerance limit for density.

To examine the causes for non-compliance the laboratory who carries out sampling and analysing for the Danish Fuel Industry Association (Drivkraft Danmark, former eof) have made a double sampling (0.25 and 1 liter bottles) for testing RVP in summer 2018, to check if the sample amount has an effect on the results of DVPE. Due to a misunderstanding this double sampling did not take place i 2017 as originally intended.

Numbers of samples taken in 2017: 
RON 92: 102 samples
RON 95: 103 samples
RON 99: 2 samples
Diesel: 100 samples.

Denmark has been granted Artic Waiver. 
The mean ethanol content in petrol-samples (RON 92, RON 95 and RON 99) was 4,57 %, 4,67 % and 4,67 %. The mean FAME-content in diesel was 6,47 %.


Notes:
Monitoring, fuel grades and sampling: 
Sampling was done in the whole country according to the sampling plan following the guidelines of a standard EN 14274:2013 model A. Country was divided to 3 macro-regions with about same sales volume and variability factor.  (See details on:  Description of National Fuel Quality Monitoring System )
All samples were taken in retail sites in all macro regions and in different time. The division of the consumption based on figures of the totals consumption of gasoline of 95 and 98 octane grades per macro region. Altogether 46 petrol  RON 95 octane, 44 petrol RON 98 octane and 45 diesel samples were taken from macro region 1. The corresponding figures for macro region 2 were 40, 40 and 41. For macro region 3 the figures were 29, 28 and 31.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Fuel grades investigated were unleaded RON 95 (95 E10) and RON 98 (98 E5) octane sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) petrol and sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) diesel fuel. These fuels were furthermore divided into summer and winter grade. Since the sales volume for RON 99 octane petrol was small (less than 2%) it was excluded from the actual sampling. Also, there was no quality under RON 95 octane on the market. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The sampling aims to comply, when applicable, with the requirements of standard EN 14274:2013. The sampling was done by trained personnel. One litre metal containers and five litre plastic containers approved for this purpose were used as sampling containers.
 
Breaches of tolerance limit: Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade): One MON value (84,3) is below the minimum limit value (85,0) and the minimum tolerance limit (84,5). No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): Four aromatics values (36,2, 36,5, 36,5 and 36,8 % v/v) were above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) and the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). When taken expanded relative uncertainty of analytical method used (± 5 %) into account all values are within the maximum limit value. Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade): Four aromatics values (36,1, 36,2, 36,7 and 36,9 % v/v) were above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) and the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). When taken expanded relative uncertainty of analytical method used (± 5 %) into account all values are within the maximum limit value.

Observed concentrations between the limit values and the tolerance limits: Petrol 95 E10 (summer grade):  The lowest RON value (94,9) is below the minimum limit value (95,0) but within the minimum tolerance limit (94,6). The lowest MON value (84,9) is below the minimum limit value (85,0) but within the minimum tolerance limit (84,5). The lowest distillation value at 100 C (45,5 % v/v) is below the minimum limit value (46,0 % v/v) but within the minimum tolerance limit (43,6 % v/v). The highest aromatics value (35,8 % v/v) is below the maximun limit (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade): The lowest RON value (94,9) is below the minimum limit value (95,0) but within the minimum tolerance limit (94,6). The highest aromatics value (35,8 % v/v) is below the maximun limit (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): The highest oxygen content (2,8 % m/m) is above the maximum limit (2,7 % m/m) but within the maximun tolerance limit (2,9 % m/m). Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade):  The highest oxygen content (2,8 % m/m) is above the maximum limit (2,7 % m/m) but within the maximun tolerance limit (2,9 % m/m).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              During the reporting year 2017 there were 8 cases, where the limit value and the tolerance limit for aromatics was exceeded. The highest value 36,9 % v/v was about 3 % higher than the maximum tolerance limit value 36,0 % v/v. When taken expanded relative uncertainty of analytical method used (± 5 %) into account the highest value is within the maximum limit value. In all exceedance cases the fuel supplier received a request from the Customs officials to give explanation to observed anomalies. All fuel suppliers provided answers in-cluding e.g. information about the fuel supply chain (transport) and/or fuel analyses from the refinery or terminals. It was concluded that the time lag between sampling and actual laboratory analysis could explain deviations at least partly. There were also changes in the analytical methods which could have affected the results. The distillation limit value and the tolerance limit were not exceeded in samples.  In aromatics case the evaporation of lighter hydrocar-bons could be the explanatory factor. However, no conclusive reasons were found for the non-compliant petrol samples.  Furthermore, no special enforcement actions were deemed necessary. The time lag between sampling and analysis has been shortened because the new laboratory equipment was fully operational.


Notes:
Des contrôles sur la qualité des carburants ont été réalisés pour les essences (le SP95 et SP98, le SP95 E10 et l’E85) ainsi que sur le gazole. 

Pour les carburants SP95 et SP98, il a été décidé de prélever le carburant disponible, sans faire de distinction entre SP95 et SP98 dans les stations-service à contrôler. Ce choix est justifié par le développement sur le marché du SP95-E10 qui remplace progressivement le SP95 ou le SP98 en station-service. Les contrôles concernant le RON et le MON sont ceux qui s’appliquent respectivement au carburant prélevé.
Pour les carburants SP95, SP98, SP95-E10 et E85, les analyses suivantes sont faites en supplément des analyses exigées par la directive relative à la qualité des carburants  :
Aspect (Inspection visuelle)
Masse volumique à 15°C (NF EN ISO 3675, NF EN ISO 12185)
Distillation à 70 °C (NF EN ISO 3405)
Point final d’ébullition (NF EN ISO 3405)
Résidu de distillation (NF EN ISO 3405)
Stabilité à l’oxydation (NF EN ISO 7536)
Teneur en gommes actuelles (lavées au solvant) (NF EN ISO 6246)
Corrosion à la lame de cuivre (3 h à 50°C) (NF EN ISO 2160)

Pour le gazole, les analyses suivantes sont faites en supplément des analyses exigées par la directive relative à la qualité des carburants  :
Indice de cétane calculé (EN ISO 4264)
Masse volumique à 15°C (EN ISO 3675 – EN ISO 12185)
Aspect (Inspection visuelle)
Point d’éclair (EN ISO 2719)
Résidu de carbone (EN ISO 10370)
Teneur en cendres (EN ISO 6245)
Teneur en eau (EN ISO 12937)
Contamination totale (EN 12662)
Corrosion à la lame de cuivre (EN ISO 2160)
Stabilité à l’oxydation – insoluble totaux à 95°C (EN ISO 12205)
Stabilité à l'oxydation – Rancimat (EN 15751), Variation de l’indice d’acide à 115°C (XP M 07-1342)
Pouvoir lubrifiant, diamètre de marque d’usure corrigée (EN ISO 12156-1)
Viscosité à 40°C (EN ISO 3104)
Distillation – condensé à 250°C et à 350°C (EN ISO 3405)
Température limite de filtrabilité (EN 116)
 
L’arrêté du 22 juillet 2016 modifiant l'arrêté du 23 décembre 1999 modifié relatif aux caractéristiques du gazole et du gazole grand froid fixait à 8 % v/v la valeur limite maximale de la teneur en EMAG. Par la  Décision n° 403841 du 11 octobre 2017, le Conseil d’État a annulé cet arrêté.  La teneur maximale en EMAG est ramenée à 7 % v/v conformémént à l’arrêté du 23 décembre 1999 modifié). Au cours des trois premiers trimestres, la distrinbution de gazole  B8 était autorisée en France mais à partir du 11 octobre 2017 seul le gazole  B7 était autorisé.  La période de transition B8 /B7, jusqu’à la fin de l’année 2017,  a généré un certain nombre de non conformités.  

Compte-tenu de l’éloignement des départements d’outre-mer français, l’organisation des contrôles s’effectue par zone  :
zone 1  : Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane
zone 2  : La Réunion, Mayotte
Au vu des difficultés et des coûts de mise en œuvre des contrôles dans ces zones (prélèvements et expéditions des échantillons en métropole…), il a été décidé de contrôler chaque zone tous les deux ans. En 2017, la zone 1 a été contrôlée.


Notes:
In 2017 an amount of 56,998,573 tons of petrol and diesel fuel has been sold in Germany. 18,296,024 tons of these as petrol (32,1 %), diesel 38,702,549 (67,9 %). 1256 samples were taken in total (847 petrol, 409 diesel).  The fuel quality in Germany is generally good, only a few cases of non-compliance have been detected:  1243 of the samples show no exceedance of the limit values, however, of these, only 13 were found to be non-compliant when taking into account the tolerance value limits. In these cases, revision letters have been issued. Exceedances have been found in vapour pressure, ethanol content and octane number for the fuels and in fame content for diesel. 
Details are presented in the following sheets “Petrol” and “Diesel” of this template.
In case of exceeding the tolerance value on any of the parameters it must be determined who is responsible for the insufficient quality of the fuel in question. A fine will be imposed if the distributor can be proven guilty of fraud or negligence. 

Fuel grades with smaller quantities sold:
0,83 Mio t of RON 98 fuel were sold in 2017. This is a market share of 1,54 %. For this reason the sampling of RON 98 comprises a smaller amount of samples.


Notes:
The highest percentage of petrol sales is held by unleaded petrol (RON > 95), while super unleaded (RON>98) follows. Lead Replacement Petrol has a negligible cut of the fuel market, while regular petrol is not marketed at all.   It was observed in certain occasions that  the FAME content in Diesel samples exceeds the limiting value of 7% V/V. However no further action was taken due to fact that the rest of the sample characteristics were within legal limits as well as the fact that the fuel dispencing pumps were  labelled as Diesel B10.                                                One diesel sample was found containing sulfur at 11,3 mg/kg, exceeding the legal limit of 10 mg/kg.                                                    However, the sulfur concentration is less than (10+0,59R),  where R is the reproducibility of the test method ISO 20846.  Therefore no further action was taken.


Notes:
Samples are taken by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association at service stations and are analysed by ITS Testing Services (UK) Ltd.  Results are reported to the Department by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association.  94 samples in total were tested during the year 47 in summer and 47 in winter.   There were 4 water vapour exceedances. There were 15 R.O.N exceedences. There was 1 methanol exceedce. There was 1 aromatics exceedence.


Notes:
In 2017 no changes have been made to the monitoring system though the Decree 21 March 2017, n. 51 was transposed  in national legislation the EU Directive 2015/652 which establishes calculation methods and reporting obligations pursuant to Directive 98/70, relating to the quality of petrol and diesel, and the Directive 2015/1513 amending the directive 98/70. Sampling were taken according the Statistical Model A of EN 14274 (large country framework, five macro-regions). A total of 200 petrol samples and 200 diesel fuel samples were analysed. The distribution of samples throughout the national territory was: 28% north-west; 18% north-east; 21% centre; 22 % south; and 11 % islands. In 2017 for petrol: 1 sample exeeds RON, 1 sample exeeds sulphur, 4 samples exeed  DVPE; for diesel:  2 samples are outside tolerance limit (1for  sulphur  and 1 for the FAME content).


Notes:
In 2017 4 samples were found to be non-compliant, but the values are within limit taking into account measurement error of measurement instruments. Repeated laboratory tests showed compliance with the limitation. Law enforcement actions were not deemed necessary.


Notes:
The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority checked 298 fuel samples per 2017 year. 136 petrol samples were taken from which 100 petrol samples were for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the test results there were not found non-compliance in petrol samples. Furthermore 162 diesel samples per 2017 year were taken from which 100 samples were  for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the results there were found no incompliance in diesel samples, taken for fuel quality monitoring system.


Notes:
For summer period 2 samples of fuel grade 95  ( 3.1 and 3.6) and 4 samples of fuel grade 98 (3.1/3.9/4.2 and 4.7) exeeded the tolerance limits for manganèse. For winter period 7 samples of fuel grade 95 ( 2x3.1/3.5/3.6/2x3.7 and 4.1) and 1 sample of fuel grade 98  (3.3)  exceeded the tolerance limit of Manganese. An item of written command by the operating company is required.


Notes:
A total of 214 fuel samples were analysed in year 2017 comprising of hundered and six  (106 )diesel samples,  hundred and two (102) unleaded petrol min RON 95 samples and six (6) unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 samples. It is the first year that Malta will be reporting the quality of an additional petrol grade - unleaded petrol minimum RON 98. The market share for unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 is below the 10% and hence following the calculation provided by the EN 14274 standard, the minimum number of samples required per year is five (5).   There were no exceedances, all the petrol samples complied to the EN 228 standard specifications and all the diesel samples complied with the EN 590 standard specifications.


Notes:
W 2017 roku tylko cztery próbki oleju napędowego nie spełniały dopuszalnych norm  (wyniki dla parametru 95 % (V/V) destyluje do tempertatury). W przypadku badań prób benzyn było to osiem prób niezgodnych z wymaganiami dla benzyny RON RON 95 (badawcza liczba oktanowa RON-2, prężność par-2, zawartość siarki-2, zawartość weglowodorów typu aromatycznego-2).
We wszystkich powyższych przypadkach skierowano zawiadomienia do Prezesa Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki oraz Prokuratury.


Notes:
The minimum number of samples/year set for small countries, considered in previous years was 300 samples.
Given the lower quantities of petrol I.O. 98 sold, and according with the European Standard EN 14274, the minimum number of analyzes  consider for this product was reduced from 100/year to 8, being the total number of analyzes/year reduced to 208. Due to the transfer of competencies for the execution of Fuel Quality Monitoring System (FQMS), to the National Authority for the Oil Market (ENMC), this entity decided, in 2017,  conduct a total of  1147 analyzes at service stations (1082 in summer and winter periods; 65 in the intermediate period (April and October), which were not considered in FQMS).
Exceeded tolerance limits constitute an infraction punishable by fine, which involves reporting to the responsible authority for prosecution.


Notes:
During year 2017, within the qualitative and quantitative monitoring system for petrol and diesel, all parameters included in the environmental specifications set by Directive 98/70/EC were planned to be measured. Other parameters than those included in the environmental specifications set by Directive 98/70/EC were not measured. A more precise method was accepted in the determination on the manganese (IP 592-11).


Notes:
The EFQMS has been run during 2017 according EN-14274 standard in the category of big country model A. 
Samples has been taken in service stations and in storage facilities in order to reach sample number required in model A.
Number of samples out of specification limits has been low with no negative trend in quality regarding previous years.


Notes:
The Swedish alternative system combines compilation of fuel quality data at the terminals with the sampling of petrol and diesel at actual refuelling stations. The latter is to guarantee the national monitoring systems equivalence to the CEN system. The reported data at the terminals, that includes all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market, represents more than 98% of the sales of petrol and diesel in Sweden. The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet. The Swedish Petroleum and Biofuels Institute compile the fuel quality data at the terminals on behalf of The Swedish Transport Agency that verifies the data, of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency has not found any exceedances of the limit values at terminals in 2017. The data from the terminals also showed good equivalency for both petrol and diesel with the samples from the actual refuelling stations (crosschecking) in 2017.


Notes:
The UK has again seen very good compliance with the requirement of the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). There has been a slight increase in exceedances overall from the previous year’s report (reporting year 2016) but in most cases it has only been by a marginal amount and therefore unlikely to have resulted in any environmental impact. Furthermore, there was no evidence that an exceedance was a consistent and continuous act of providing fuel that was not in conformity of the FQD.

For petrol, the increases in exceedance have been in relation to vapour pressure and aromatics limits. Most of the vapour pressure exceedances were in June and therefore likely to have resulted from retailers failing to run-down sufficiently any existing winter grade stock before the summer grade requirements applied. Also as the exceedances were early in the summer period when the ambient temperatures were likely to be such not to exacerbate the situation, therefore, the environmental impact is expected to be negligible. However Officials are writing to the industry to ask for improvements to be made so that exceedances in vapour pressure can be avoided. The exceedances of the aromatics limits were mostly marginal and therefore unlikely to have had any significant impact to the environment. The rise in exceedances is of concern and so Officials are writing to the industry for further details and warning that action may be taken if it continues. 

For diesel, there has been a reduction in exceedances over the previous year’s report with only a single exceedance in sulphur and two with respect to FAME. As the sulphur limit exceedance was a one off and by only a small amount no action is considered necessary. The FQD does permit over 7% for FAME but that should not be the case for this grade. Therefore there is no environmental concerns regarding the FAME exceedances and would unlikely to have resulted in vehicle compatibility issues given that it was by a marginal amount.


Notes:
There were neither additional parameters measured nor any excluded. In total 3 parameter of petrol samples exceeded the tolerance limits (DFVP; 63,0; 69,3 Normal and 66,1 Super)


Notes:
1. In 2018 were taken and tested 1 523 samples of liquid fuels of which:
- 233 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 119 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98) and 114 samples of diesel fuel. The number of taken samples was proportionate to the consumption by regions. Samples taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested only in a permanently sited laboratory.
- 1 290 samples for the purposes of planned republican control and of inspections carried out together with supervisory bodies from other State institutions or on citizens’ alert, including 546 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98), 732 samples of diesel fuel and 12 samples of other fuels, subject to control, according to the national legislation: fuel for non-road machinery and tractors, heavy fuel oil and gasoil for industrial and utility purposes. The samples of petrol and diesel fuel taken for the purposes of the republican control were tested in a mobile laboratory and/or in a permanently sited laboratory. The equipment of the mobile laboratories is mostly for express testing methods. When in a mobile laboratory non-compliance was established for one or more parameters, testing was repeated in the permanently sited laboratory.
In 2018 the consumption of petrol RON>=98 was 7.8% of the total amount of petrol on the market.
The marketed fuels were mainly produced by one Bulgarian refinery. One part was imported from abroad. 
2. Besides parameters, referred to in the Directive and in the Report Tables, most samples were tested also for other parameters like: Density and Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point and Distillation residue, for petrol; Flash point, Water content and Cold Filter plugging point for diesel fuel.
3. For any established non-compliance were taken enforcement actions, according to the Clean Air Act, the Law of Renewable Energy Sources, as well as the Regulation on the liquid fuels quality requirements, conditions, order and way of their control.
When establishing infringements, control bodies prohibit placing on the market, distribution, transportation or use of liquid fuels and order liquid fuels to be withdrawn from the market.
The deviations from the quality requirements by the parameters given in “Methods&Limits” in the present Report, for samples taken for the purposes of FQMS, as well as the imposed sanctions for these infringements, are described in Tables “Diesel (2)” and “Diesel (1+2)”.
In two of the petrol samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of Directorate General “Quality Control of liquid fuels” (DG QCLF), in accordance with BDS EN ISO 3405:2011. The limit value of this parameter is max 210oC, R=6.78 (for result below 260oC), the expanded limit value is max 214oC. The deviations were within the range of 217.9oC to 224oC. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
In three of the diesel fuel samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Flash point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 2719:2004. The limit value of this parameter is over 55oC, R=3.7, the expanded limit value is over 52.8oC. The deviations were within the range of 47oC to 50.5oC. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
In one of the diesel fuel samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Sulphur content”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 20884:2011. The limit value of this parameter is 10 mg/kg, R=3.1, the expanded limit value is 11.8 mg/kg. The measured value was 56.1 mg/kg. For this infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva.
4. The samples of liquid fuels taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested for all compulsory parameters.
5. There were no regions in the country not to be covered by the monitoring program.


Notes:
According to the national legislation which transposed the Fuel Quality Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of any exceedance of prescribed fuel quality. Enforcement is under responsibility of Market Inspection (Ministry of Economy, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 130/11, 47/14, 61/17).According to the national legislation which transposed the FQM Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of not submitting data to the National database established by Ministry of Environment and Energy . Enforcement is under responsibility of Environmental Inspection (Ministry of Environment and Energy, Republic of Croatia).Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 130/11, 47/14, 61/17, 118/18).


Notes:
1. Some other parameters for diesel and petrol that are not required to be reported, have also been measured. For example, water content, distillation at 250 and 350oC, CFPP point and cetane index are also measured in diesel samples. Furthermore, parameters like distillation at 70oC, FBP and residue are  measured for many petrol samples. Vapour Pressure is also measured for winter period (max 80kPa) but is not included in this report as it is not required.
2. Fuel grade of Unleaded Petrol 100 octane, was  marketed in Cyprus in 2018 in very low quantities in 2018. 
3. Summer period is from 16/4-15/10 and winter period is from 16/10-15/4. Transition period from summer to winter and vice versa is set to 6 weeks. Some of the vapour pressure measurements "appear to be out of specifications" according to this template because the measurements of these samples were within the transition period.  
4. After the transition period, gasoline samples were found to be out of specs, in 4 samples. The fuels were immediately out of sale and the responsible company faced penal prosecution.
5. Also, 3 samples of diesel were found to be out of specs. The fuels were immediately out of sale and the responsible company faced penal prosecution.


Notes:
The process control of the fuel monitoring quality is coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic in accordance with the national legislation and Directive 98/70/EC as amended in the specification for petrol and diesel fuels, which were sold on the Czech fuel market in 2018. 
The fuel quality monitoring has been conducted in accordance with FQMS of the European standard EN 14274:2013 and its national Czech version ČSN EN 14274:2013 with the use of regional model C, in consistent with the Czech national legislation and Czech standards for petrol and diesel, but in their final amendment versions for petrol (EN 228:2012 + A12017 and ČSN EN 228:2013 +A12018 and ČSN EN 590:2014). 
The total number of the fuel quality samples by the Directive 98/70/EC has been checked in 2295 samples. It means 1005 samples of petrol and 1284 samples of diesel, plus 6 samples of artic clima in winter time, it means 1290 samples of diesel, in sum. The total number of the basic fuel quality samples has been checked in 2295 samples. 
In the comparison with the year 2017 was the requirement of customers for biofuels with higher bio component in the Czech market has been reduced to a minimum as last year, for example FAME – 100% biodiesel and blended diesel (mixed diesel fuel) were not purchased on the Czech market in 2018. Ethanol 85 was purchased only in a very low quantities, it means 10 samples. However, purchases of gaseous fuels have increased, namely LPG and CNG, respectively, LNG. 
The number of additional fuel samples included 10 samples of Ethanol 85, for gaseous fuel grade, it means 40 samples of CNG – Natural Gas and 300 samples of LPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas. The total number of fuel samples was checked in 2645 control samples at the service stations in the whole country. It means with the sum of all additional required fuels of 350 samples (like E85, LPG and CNG).


Notes:
In 2018 all samples (petrol and diesel) are taken at service stations.

All samples are in complience with the limits in the directive except 7 samples which are outside the 95 % tolerance limit for Vapour Pressure (DVPE) and 12 samples which are outsite the 95 % tolerance limit for aromatics. Beyond this there are 3 samples which are outside the 95 % tolerance limit for other parametres.

To examine the causes for non-compliance the laboratory who carries out sampling and analysing for the Danish Fuel Industry Association (Drivkraft Danmark, former eof) have made a double sampling (0.25 and 1 liter bottles) for testing RVP in summer 2018, to check if the sample amount has an effect on the results of DVPE. The test showed that the mesured RVP is independed of the sample volumen.

Numbers of samples taken in 2018: 
RON 92: 99 samples
RON 95: 101 samples
RON 100: 4 samples
Diesel: 100 samples.

Denmark has been granted Artic Waiver.

The mean ethanol content in petrol-samples (RON 92, RON 95 and RON 100) was 4,71 %, 4,68 % and 4,75 %. The mean FAME-content in diesel was 6,50 %.


Notes:
Sampling was done in the whole country according to the sampling plan following the guidelines of a standard EN 14274:2013 model A. Country was divided to 3 macro-regions with about same sales volume and variability factor.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Fuel grades investigated were unleaded RON 95  E10 and RON 98 E5 sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) petrol and sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) diesel fuel. These fuels were furthermore divided into summer and winter grade. Since the sales volume for RON 99 octane petrol was small (less than 2 %) it was excluded from the actual sampling. In addition, there was no quality under RON 95 octane on the market. All samples were taken at retail sites.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 
Breaches of tolerance limit: Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade): One DVPE value (74,4 kPa) is above the maximum limit value (70,0 kPa) and above the maximum tolerance limit value (71,4). No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): One oxygen content (3,0 % m/m) is above the maximum limit (2,7 % m/m) and above the maximum tolerance limit value (2,9 % m/m). No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade): One aromatics value (36,1 % v/v) is above the maximum limit (35,0 % v/v) and above the maximum tolerance limit (36,0 % v/v). No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary.

Observed concentrations between the limit values and the tolerance limits: Petrol 95 E10 (summer grade):  The highest aromatics value (35,6 % v/v) is above the maximum limit (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v). The highest sulphur content (10,5 mg/kg) is above the maximum limit value (10,0 mg/k) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (11,6 mg/kg). Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade):  The highest aromatics value (35,4 % v/v) is above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v). The highest sulphur content (10,5 mg/kg) is above the maximum limit value (10,0 mg/kg) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (11,6 mg/kg). Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): The highest aromatics value (35,9 % v/v) is above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v).


Notes:
In the sample periods of 2018 a total of 1232 samples were taken (730 petrol, 449 diesel). While the number of diesel samples meets the requirements of large countries, the number of petrol samples is too low in summer and winter periods for Super E5 and Super E10 fuels, because two states were short in their required number of samples.
Compared to the 2017 period non-compliant samples were reduced by more than three fourth down to only three non-compliant samples when taking into account the tolerance value limits. See  “Petrol” and “Diesel” sections of this template for details.
In case of exceeding the tolerance value on any of the parameters it must be determined who is responsible for the insufficient quality of the fuel in question. A fine will be imposed if the distributor can be proven guilty of fraud or negligence. 
Fuel grades with smaller quantities sold:
0,83 Mio. tonnes of Super Plus (RON98) fuel were sold in 2018. This is a market share of 1.49 %. For this reason the sampling of RON 98 comprises a smaller amount of samples.


Notes:
The highest percentage of petrol sales is held by unleaded petrol (RON > 95), while super unleaded (RON>98) follows. Lead Replacement Petrol has a negligible cut of the fuel market, while regular petrol is not marketed at all.   It was observed in certain occasions that  the FAME content in Diesel samples exceeds the limiting value of 7% V/V. However no further action was taken due to fact that the rest of the sample characteristics were within legal limits as well as the fact that the fuel dispensing pumps were  labelled as Diesel B10.  Therefore no further action was taken.


Notes:
Other parameters measured: Specific energy of diesel fuel. Very few samples were outside parameter tolerance limits. FAME and Manganese not present in any of the fuel.


Notes:
Samples are taken by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association at service stations and are analysed by ITS Testing Services (UK) Ltd.  Results are reported to the Department by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association.  100 samples in total were tested during the year 50 in summer and 50 in winter.   There was 1 Vapour Pressure exceedance.


Notes:
the fuel market in Italy is rather static and there have been no changes compared to the past years. the number of samples out of specification is constant over the years.


Notes:
In 2018  1 diesel fuel sample was found to be non-compliant (distillation temperature), but since the sample was taken in terminal and the fuel was not released for consumption enforcement actions were not deemed neccesearry.


Notes:
The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority checked 611 fuel (petrol, diesel, marin fuel and others) samples per 2018 year. 155 petrol samples were taken from which 103 petrol samples were for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the test results there were no non -compliance petrol samples.  According to the results there were not found  incompliance in diesel samples, taken for fuel quality monitoring system. National Specification permits higher Petrol Vapour pressure values, so checked values exceed the maximum permitted values in the Directive 2009/30/EC. 293 diesel samples were taken per 2018 year from which 100 samples were  for fuel quality monitoring system. Attention should be paid that national specification permits higher the maximum diesel FAME content value in compare with the Directive 2009/30/EC.


Notes:
For summer period 1 sample of fuel grade 95 exeeded the tolerance limits for Vapour Pressure DVPE (82.8) and 2 samples of fuel grade 95  exeeded the tolerance limits for Manganese ( 3.2 and 4.1). Furthermore for  summer period 2 samples of fuel grade 98 exeeded the tolerance limits for Vapour Pressure DVPE (63.5/62) and 2 samples of fuel grade 98  exeeded the tolerance limits for Manganese ( 3.1 and 3.6). For winter period 1 sample of fuel grade 95 (4.1) and 2 samples of fuel grade 98  (3.1/3.5)  exceeded the tolerance limit of Manganese. An item of written command by the operating company is required.


Notes:
A total of  two hundred and fourteen (214) fuel samples were analysed in year 2018 comprising of hundered and four  (104)diesel samples,  hundred and five (105) unleaded petrol minimum RON 95 samples, and five (5) unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 samples. The majority of the unleaded petrol samples were found to be within the EN 228 standard specifications except for three exceedences in the petrol minimum RON 95 samples - one exceedence in Research Octane Number and two exceedences in Vapour Pressure, one of which was obtained during the transition period between winter to summer.  The majority of the diesel samples were found to be within the EN 590 specifications except for one exceedence of sulfur content. Actions taken for exceedences in petrol are explained in details in worksheet Petrol (1) and Petrol (1+2) and the actions for exceedences in diesel are explained in details in workesheet diesel (1) and diesel (1+2).


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General Summary of Analysis and Additional Information:


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W 2018 roku czternaście próbek oleju napędowego nie spełniało dopuszczalych norm. W dziesięciu przypadkach przekroczenia dotyczyły parametru stabilność oksydacyjna (h), w czterech przypadkach przekroczenia dotyczyły parametru stabilność oksydacyjna (g/m3 ),  natomiast w pięciu przypadkach przekroczenia dotyczyły parametru temperatura zapłonu. Z wyżej wymienionych cztery próby nie spełniały wymaganych norm dla więcej niż jednego parametru.  
Odnośnie badań prób benzyn odnotowano łącznie cztery próby niezgodne z wymaganiami: dwie dla benzyny RON 95 (jedna próbka z przekroczoną dopuszczalną wartością  dla parametru badawcza oraz motorowa liczba oktanowa, jedna próbka z przekroczoną wartością dla prężności par) oraz dwie próbki niezgodne z wymaganiami dla benzyny RON 98 (w obu przypadkach przekroczono parametr prężność par).  
We wszystkich powyższych przypadkach skierowano zawiadomienia do Prezesa Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki oraz Prokuratury.


Notes:
The minimum number of samples/year set for small countries, establish in the European Standard EN 14274 is 300 samples.
Given the lower quantities of petrol I.O. 98 sold, and according with the European Standard EN 14274, the minimum number for this product was reduced from 100/year to 8, being the total number of analyzes/year reduced to 208. Due to the transfer of competencies for the execution of Fuel Quality Monitoring System (FQMS), to the National Authority for the Oil Market (ENMC), renamed Nacional Entity for Energy Sector (ENSE) this entity decided, in 2018,  conduct a total of 1110  analyzes at service stations (1057 in summer and winter periods; 53 in the intermediate period (April and October), which were not considered in FQMS).
Exceeded tolerance limits constitute an infraction punishable by fine, which involves reporting to the responsible authority for prosecution.


Notes:
Romania monitors all parameters and considers the tolerance limits from the standards applying to each method. 2018 was the last year in which the market was allowed to introduce B0 considering the national annex of SR EN 590:2004 without restrictions of mass balance. From 2019, we added a mass balance that reduced almost totally the possibility of introducing B0 on the market, without compensatory actions during the non-winter period.


Notes:
The EFQMS has been run during 2018 according EN-14274 standard in the category of big country model A. 
Samples has been taken in service stations and in storage facilities in order to reach sample number required in model A.
Number of samples out of specification limits has been low with no negative trend in quality regarding previous years.


Notes:
The Swedish alternative system combines compilation of fuel quality data at the terminals with the sampling of petrol and diesel at actual refuelling stations. The latter is to guarantee the national monitoring systems equivalence to the CEN system. The reported data at the terminals, that includes all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market, represents more than 98% of the sales of petrol and diesel in Sweden. The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet.

The Swedish Petroleum and Biofuels Institute compile the fuel quality data at the terminals on behalf of The Swedish Transport Agency that verifies the data, of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency has not found any exceedances of the limit values at terminals in 2018. The data from the terminals also showed good equivalency for both petrol and diesel with the samples from the actual refuelling stations (crosschecking) in 2018.


Notes:
There were neither additional parameters measured nor any excluded. In total 2 parameter of petrol samples exceeded the tolerance limits (DFVP; 64,37 and 62,53, both „Super“)


Notes:
The ministerial ruling of January 24th 2002 approving the internal regulations of the Management Committee of the Petroleum Products Analysis Fund describes the operation of the Fapetro Fund. Detailled information about our EN ISO 17020 accredited organisation can be provided on demand.
Belgium has national system to supervise the petrol market.


Notes:
1. In 2019 were taken and tested 1 753 samples of liquid fuels of which:
- 239 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 127 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98) and 112 samples of diesel fuel. The number of taken samples was proportionate to the consumption by regions. Samples taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested only in a permanently sited laboratory.
- 1 514 samples for the purposes of planned republican control and of inspections carried out together with supervisory bodies from other State institutions or on citizens’ alert, including 568 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98), 858 samples of diesel fuel and 88 samples of other fuels, subject to control, according to the national legislation: fuel for non-road machinery and tractors, heavy fuel oil and gasoil for industrial and utility purposes. The samples of petrol and diesel fuel taken for the purposes of the republican control were tested in a mobile laboratory and/or in a permanently sited laboratory. The equipment of the mobile laboratories is mostly for express testing methods. When in a mobile laboratory non-compliance was established for one or more parameters, testing was repeated in the permanently sited laboratory.
In 2019 the consumption of petrol RON>=98 was 8,2 % of the total amount of petrol on the market.
The marketed fuels were mainly produced by one Bulgarian refinery. One part was imported from abroad. 
2. Besides parameters, referred to in the Directive and in the Report Tables, most samples were tested also for other parameters like: Density and Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point and Distillation residue, for petrol; Flash point, Water content and Cold Filter plugging point for diesel fuel.
3. For any established non-compliance were taken enforcement actions, according to the Ambient Air Quality Act, the Energy from Renewable Sources Act, as well as the Regulation on the liquid fuels quality requirements, conditions, order and way of their control.
When establishing nonconformities, control bodyies prohibit placing on the market, distribution, transportation or use of liquid fuels and order liquid fuels to be withdrawn from the market.
The deviations from the quality requirements by the parameters given in “Methods&Limits” in the present Report, for samples taken for the purposes of FQMS, as well as the imposed sanctions for these infringements, are described in Tables “Petrol (2)”, “Petrol (1+2)”, “Petrol (3)”, “Petrol (3+4)”,“Diesel (1)” and “Diesel (1+2)”.
In three of the petrol samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of Directorate General “Quality Control of liquid fuels” (DG QCLF), in accordance with BDS EN ISO 3405:2011. The limit value of this parameter is max 210 °C, R=6.78 (for result below 260 °C), the expanded limit value is max 214 °C. The deviations were within the range of 218,5 °C to 243 °C. For each nonconformity was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva (BGN).
In three of the diesel fuel samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Flash point”. The samples were tested in the accredited stationary laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 2719:2004. The limit value of this parameter is over 55 °C, R=3.7, the expanded limit value is over 52.8°C. The deviations were within the range of 40 °C to 51.5 °C. For each infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva (BGN).
4. The samples of liquid fuels taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested for all mandatory parameters.
5. There are no regions in the country not to be covered by the monitoring program.


Notes:
According to the national legislation which transposed the Fuel Quality Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of any exceedance of prescribed fuel quality. Enforcement is under responsibility of Market Inspection (State Inspectorate, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 127/19).According to the national legislation which transposed the FQM Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of not submitting data to the National database established by Ministry of Environment and Energy . Enforcement is under responsibility of Environmental Inspection (Ministry of Environment and Energy, Republic of Croatia).Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 127/19).


Notes:
1. Some other parameters for diesel and petrol that are not required to be reported, have also been measured. For example, water content, distillation at 250 and 350oC, CFPP point and cetane index are also measured in diesel samples. Furthermore, parameters like distillation at 70oC, FBP and residue are  measured for many petrol samples. Vapour Pressure is also measured for winter period (max 80kPa) but is not included in this report as it is not required.
2. Fuel grade of Unleaded Petrol 100 octane, was  marketed in Cyprus in 2019 in very low quantities and min sample requirement is less 1 sample. Also,  Fuel grade of Unleaded Petrol 98 octane had small share in Cyprus market and the calculated minimum sample requirement is 4. 
3. Summer period is from 16/4-15/10 and winter period is from 16/10-15/4. Transition period from summer to winter and vice versa is set to 6 weeks. Some of the vapour pressure measurements "appear to be out of specifications" according to this template because the measurements of these samples were within the transition period.  
4. Totally in 7 cases samples were found to be out of specs : a) 3 samples of RON 98 found to be out of specs in RON with less than 98 and b) 2 samples of diesel with FAME slidly above 7 c) 1 sample of diesel with Flash Point<40 C  and d) 1 sample of diesel with water due to tanks problem.
In all cases the fuels were immediately out of sale and the responsible company faced penal prosecution.


Notes:
The process control of the fuel monitoring quality is coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic in accordance with the national legislation and Directive 98/70/EC as amended in the specification for petrol and diesel fuels, which were sold on the Czech fuel market in 2019. 
The fuel quality monitoring has been conducted in accordance with FQMS of the European standard EN 14274:2013 and its national Czech version ČSN EN 14274:2013 with the use of regional model C, in consistent with the Czech national legislation and Czech standards for petrol and diesel, but in their final amendment versions for petrol (EN 228:2012 + A12017 and ČSN EN 228:2013 +A12018 and ČSN EN 590:2014). 
The total number of the fuel quality samples by the Directive 98/70/EC has been checked in 2318 samples. It means 1010 samples of petrol and 1302 samples of diesel, plus 6 samples of artic clima in winter time, or similar winter conditions, it means 1308 samples of diesel, in sum. The total number of the basic fuel quality samples has been checked in 2318 samples. 
The required parameter for petrol vapor pressure after bioethanol as an addition of bio component was measured higher than the limit value of 60 kPa in several control samples, which is related to the error due to mixing of winter and summer petrol in petrol stations in the transition period. The Czech Republic solves this problem with the national NA application in the standard ČSN EN 228 by extending the transitional period from winter to summer until 21 May in order to explain the increased values in the vapor pressure indicator, which is also stated in the relevant notes on exceedances.
In the comparison with the year 2018 was the requirement of customers for biofuels in the same situation of the higher bio component content in the Czech market. The requirement of consumers have been reduced to a minimum as previous year, for example FAME – 100% biodiesel and blended diesel (mixed diesel fuel) were not purchased on the Czech market in 2019. Ethanol 85 was purchased only in a very low quantities, it means 10 samples. However, purchases of gaseous fuels were in higher quantities as alternative fuels, similar as last year 2018, namely LPG and CNG, respectively, LNG.
The number of additional fuel samples included 10 samples of Ethanol 85, for gaseous fuel grade as alternative fuels, it means 40 samples of CNG – Natural Gas and 300 samples of LPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas. The total number of fuel samples was checked in 2668 control samples at the service stations in the whole country. It means with the sum of all additional required fuels of 350 samples (like E85, LPG and CNG).


Notes:
In 2019 all samples (petrol and diesel) are taken at service stations.
All samples are in complience with the limits in the directive, except some samples which is outside the 95 % tolerance limit for Vapour Pressure (DVPE) and aromatics.


Numbers of samples taken in 2019: 
RON 92:  9 samples
RON 95: 101 samples
RON 99: 2 samples
Diesel: 100 samples.

Denmark has been granted Artic Waiver. 
The mean ethanol content in petrol-samples (RON 92, RON 95 and RON 99) was 4,73 %, 4,68 % and 4,76 %. The mean FAME-content in diesel was 6,23 %.


Notes:
Estonian Environmental Research Centre (EERC, http://www.klab.ee/en, Contact person: Artur Gornischeff, artur.gornischeff@klab.ee) is managing the FQMS and reporting the results. The monitoring followed the European Standard EN 14274. Sampling was done by the European standard EN 14275. Analyses were done in the fuel laboratory of EERC and all applied methods have been accredited.


Notes:
Sampling was done in the whole country according to the sampling plan following the guidelines of a standard EN 14274:2013 model A. Country was divided to 3 macro-regions with about same sales volume and variability factor.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Fuel grades investigated were unleaded RON 95  E10 and RON 98 E5 sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) petrol and sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) diesel fuel. These fuels were furthermore divided into summer and winter grade. Since the sales volume for RON 99 octane petrol was small (less than 2 %) it was excluded from the actual sampling. In addition, there was no quality under RON 95 octane on the market. All samples were taken at retail sites.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Breaches of tolerance limit: Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): One DVPE value (72,2 kPa) is above the maximum limit value (70,0 kPa) and above the maximum tolerance limit value (71,4). No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. There was no signs of systematic quality problems or wilful neglect. Observed concentrations between the limit values and the tolerance limits: Petrol 95 E10 (summer grade):  The highest aromatics value (35,3 % v/v) is above the maximum limit (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v). The highest sulphur content (10,6 mg/kg) is above the maximum limit value (10,0 mg/k) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (11,6 mg/kg).  The lowest ethanol content (4,8 % v/v) is below the minimum limit value (5,0 % v/v) but within the minimum tolerance limit value (5,1 % v/v). Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade):  The highest sulphur content (10,4 mg/kg) is above the maximum limit value (10,0 mg/kg) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (11,6 mg/kg). Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): The highest aromatics value (35,7 % v/v) is above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v). The highest sulphur content (10,5 mg/kg) is above the maximum limit value (10,0 mg/kg) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (11,6 mg/kg). The highest ethanol content (5,1 % v/v) is above the maximum limit value (5,0 % v/v) but with the maximum tolerance limit value (5,3 % v/v). Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade): The highest aromatics value (35,1 % v/v) is above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v).  The highest ethanol content (5,1 % v/v) is above the maximum limit value (5,0 % v/v) but with the maximum tolerance limit value (5,3 % v/v).


Notes:
In the sampling periods of 2019 a total number of 1268 samples was taken (802 petrol, 466 diesel) of which 37 samples (37 petrol) have been excluded due to sampling during the transition period*. While the overall number of diesel samples meets the requirements of large countries (L, 200), the overall number of samples is too low in summer and winter periods for Super E5 and Super E10 petrol fuels, mainly due to two non-macro regions (federal states) being short (see below) compared to their minimum required number of samples and the exclusions mentioned above.
One Federal state refuses to sample both (winter and summer) periods each year. Instead, only one period is alternatingly sampled with twice the minimum required number of samples. 
Another Federal state did not reach the given minimum number of samples in the Annex 20 of the “General Administrative Regulation on the Implementation of the Ordinance on the Quality and Labelling of Fuels of September 4th 2012 for petrol Super E10. The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety was informed by the Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector of Baden-Württemberg about the planned adjustment of the sample distribution. The reason for the deviation from Annex 20 of the General Administrative Regulation was the adjustment of the sample distribution to the actual market share of the individual fuel types as described in point 4.2 of the General Administration Regulation. The required total amount of all fuel samples (Petrol and Diesel) from Annex 20 General Administrative Regulation was provided by the Federal state Baden-Württemberg. This individual change without the other federal states being consulted contributes to non-compliance according to the required number of samples. 
*Federal state “Hessen” reported all winter samples taken after March 15th. German legislation does not prohibit sampling in transition periods to ensure fuel quality during these times as well. Nevertheless, transition petrol samples are excluded from the German report to the European Commission. Germany intends to keep allowing samples during transition periods to ensure fuel quality in these periods. Measures will be implemented to fulfil the minimum sample number requirement during the winter and summer period.
Seven non-compliant samples are reported when taking into account the limit tolerance of the methods. See “Petrol” and “Diesel” sections of this template for details.
Regarding the two fuels diesel (EN590) and petrol (EN228) all parameters of the corresponding standard are part of the German national FQMS. There is a minimum set of fuel quality parameters defined which is much smaller. The German minimum parameter set does not yet cover the full set of parameters of the FQD. The requirement will be harmonized in the next revision of the German General Administrative Regulation.
In case of exceeding the tolerance value on any of the parameters it must be determined who is responsible for the insufficient quality of the fuel in question. In most cases a fine will be imposed if the distributor can be proven guilty of fraud or negligence. 
Fuel grades with smaller quantities sold:
0,83 Mio. tonnes of Super Plus (RON98) fuel were sold in 2019. This is a total (diesel and petrol) market share of 1.49 % and 4.6 % of its parent fuel grade petrol. For this reason the sampling of Super Plus comprises a smaller amount of samples.


Notes:
The highest percentage of petrol sales is held by unleaded petrol (RON > 95), while super unleaded (RON>98) follows. Lead Replacement Petrol has a negligible cut of the fuel market, while regular petrol is not marketed at all.   It was observed in certain occasions that  the FAME content in Diesel samples exceeds the limiting value of 7% V/V. However no further action was taken due to fact that the rest of the sample characteristics were within legal limits, as well as the fact that the fuel dispensing pumps were  labelled as Diesel B10. One 95 RON petrol sample was found adulterated with 57% high sulfur light hydrocarbons.  One diesel sample was found adulterated with marine gas oil.  A second diesel sample was found adulterated with 68% high sulfur diesel of unknown origin. Three more diesel samples were found to contain sulfur in concentrations ranging from 13,0 mg/kg to 23,9 mg/kg. For all the above, administrative fines were imposed and further judicial prosecution was initiated.


Notes:
Samples are taken by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association at service stations and are analysed by ITS Testing Services (UK) Ltd.  Results are reported to the Department by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association.  100 samples of both petrol and diesel  were tested during the year (50 in summer and 50 in winter).   There were three exceedances detected, all for levels of FAME in summer diesel samples.


Notes:
According to the paragraph 15 of Cabinet Regulation No. 332 „Requirements for Conformity Assessment of Petrol and Diesel Fuel” (Regulation No.332) the State Revenue Service has provided information regarding the quality of fuel, total quantity of petrol and diesel fuel sold, as well as the quantity of petrol and diesel fuel sold (with maximum sulphur content 10 mg/kg) in the Latvia for 2019. The data of fuel quality of 2019 has been gathered during the fuel quality checks performed by the State Revenue Service. In 2019 one diesel fuel sample was found to be non-compliant as the sulphur content was 43.1 mg/kg, as a result the taxpayer has been administratively fined and excises tax has been calculated for him. Five petrol sample values failed to reach the tolerance limit (95% confidence) as the research octane number of the petrol exceeded the limit value, however those values are within the limit considering measurement error of measurement instruments.


Notes:
The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority checked 569 fuel (petrol, diesel, marin fuel and others) samples per 2019 year.  170 petrol samples were taken from which 104  petrol samples were for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the test results there were no non -compliance petrol samples.  According to the results there were not found  incompliance in diesel samples, taken for fuel quality monitoring system. National Specification permits higher Petrol Vapour pressure values, so checked values exceed the maximum permitted values in the Directive 2009/30/EC. 291 diesel samples were taken per 2019 year from which 100 samples were  for fuel quality monitoring system. Attention should be paid that national specification permits higher the maximum diesel FAME content value in compare with the Directive 2009/30/EC.


Notes:
For  summer period 2 samples of fuel grade 98 exeeded the tolerance limits for Vapour Pressure DVPE (62.5, 70.4)  An item of written command by the operating company is required.


Notes:
A total of  two hundred and fourteen (214) fuel samples were analysed in year 2019 comprising of hundered and three (103)diesel samples,  hundred and five (105) unleaded petrol minimum RON 95 samples, and six (6) unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 samples. Unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 makes less than 10% market share than the parent grade and that is why the total of samples is low compared to the other fuel. All the unleaded petrol samples (minimum RON 95 and minimum RON 98 samples) were found to be within the EN 228 standard specifications.  The majority of the diesel samples were found to be within the EN 590 specifications except for one exceedence of sulfur content. The actions for exceedences in diesel are explained in details in workesheet diesel (2) and diesel (1+2).


Notes:
This year, out of 100 unleaded petrol samples taken, the Benzene parameter in 4 samples, the Oxygen Content parameter in 30 samples and the Oxygenates -- Ethanol parameter in 23 samples the tolerance limit was breached. Out of 102 Diesel fuel samples taken, the  Distillation - 95% point parameter in 6 samples, the FAME Content parameter in 1 sample and the Sulphur Content parameter in 1 sample the tolerance limit was breached.                                                                                                              The petrol service stations where the tolerance limits were breached received a warning letter from the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.


Notes:
Short description of the fuel grades and the distribution of fuels in Norway: In Norway the main fuel grades are 95 octane, 98 octane and autodiesel. In 2019 the total amount of fuel delivered to road transport was 3.954.112 m3. There are four main oil companies in Norway (St1 Norge, Circle K Norge, Esso Norge and Uno-X Energi) and they covered over almost 97 % of the fuel market in 2019. There are two refineries in Norway (Mongstad and Slagen). The distribution of fuel is covered from 26 regional distribution sites and about 50 smaller local sites. The number of petrol stations are approx. 1570.


Notes:
W 2019 roku w zakresie analitycznym niniejszego raportu tylko jedna próbka oleju napędowego nie spełniała dopuszczalnych norm. Przekroczenie dotyczyło parametru zawartość siarki. Ponadto w krajowym zakresie parametrów, który jest obszerniejszy odnotowano jeszcze przekroczenia dla parametru stabilność oksydacyjna (h) oraz temperatura zapłonu. 
Odnośnie badań prób benzyn odnotowano trzy próby niezgodne z wymaganiami: dwie dla benzyny RON 98 (z przekroczoną wartością dla prężności par) oraz jedną dla beznyny RON 95 (z przekroczoną wartością dla badawczej liczby oktanowej). Ponadto w krajowym (szerszym) zakresie analitycznym dla beznyny RON 95 odnotowano jeszcze pojedyncze przekroczenia normy dla paramentrów: zawartość związków organicznych zawierających tlen (etanol), pozostałość po destylacji i indeks lotności. 
We wszystkich powyższych przypadkach skierowano zawiadomienia do Prezesa Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki oraz Prokuratury.


Notes:
The minimum number of samples/year set for small countries, establish in the European Standard EN 14274 is 300 samples.
Given the lower quantities of petrol I.O. 98 sold, and according with the European Standard EN 14274, the minimum number for this product was reduced from 100/year to 8, being the total number of analyzes/year reduced to 208. Due to the transfer of competencies for the execution of Fuel Quality Monitoring System (FQMS), to the National Authority for the Oil Market (ENMC), renamed National Entity for Energy Sector (ENSE) this entity decided, in 2019, conduct a total of 268   analyzes at service stations (202 in summer and winter periods; 66 in the intermediate period (April and October), which were not considered in FQMS).
Exceeded tolerance limits constitute an infraction punishable by fine, which involves reporting to the responsible authority for prosecution.


Notes:
The EFQMS has been run during 2019 according EN-14274 standard in the category of big country model A. 
Samples has been taken in service stations, in storage facilities and in refineries in order to reach sample number required in model A. "Gasolina 98" grade is approximately 7,4% of the total petrol sales and, consequently, less samples have been taken.
Number of samples out of specification limits has been low with no negative trend in quality regarding previous years.


Notes:
The Swedish alternative system combines compilation of fuel quality data at the terminals with the sampling of petrol and diesel at actual refuelling stations. The latter is to guarantee the national monitoring systems equivalence to the CEN system. The reported data at the terminals, that includes all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market, represents more than 98% of the sales of petrol and diesel in Sweden. The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet.

The Swedish Petroleum and Biofuels Institute compile the fuel quality data at the terminals on behalf of The Swedish Transport Agency that verifies the data, of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency has not found any exceedances of the limit values at terminals in 2019. The data from the terminals also showed good equivalency for both petrol and diesel with the samples from the actual refuelling stations (crosschecking) in 2019, except for an exceedance that was found at sampling from an actual refuelling station. A diesel sample from that station contained a slightly higher content of fame. The Swedish Transport Agency has been in contact with the responsible fuel company and received an explanation as to why this could have happened.
The Swedish alternative system combines compilation of fuel quality data at the terminals with the sampling of petrol and diesel at actual refuelling stations. The latter is to guarantee the national monitoring systems equivalence to the CEN system. The reported data at the terminals, that includes all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market, represents more than 98% of the sales of petrol and diesel in Sweden. The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet.

The Swedish Petroleum and Biofuels Institute compile the fuel quality data at the terminals on behalf of The Swedish Transport Agency that verifies the data, of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency has not found any exceedances of the limit values at terminals in 2019. The data from the terminals also showed good equivalency for both petrol and diesel with the samples from the actual refuelling stations (crosschecking) in 2019, except for an exceedance that was found at sampling from an actual refuelling station. A diesel sample from that station contained a slightly higher content of fame. The Swedish Transport Agency has been in contact with the responsible fuel company and received an explanation as to why this could have happened.


Notes:
The UK has again seen very good compliance with the requirements of the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). There has been a continued reduction in exceedances overall from the previous years’ reports (20 in reporting year 2018 and 46 in reporting year 2017). In nearly all cases of exceedance it has been by a marginal amount and not sustained therefore unlikely to have resulted in any increase in environmental impact. 

For petrol, the exceedances have mostly been in relation to vapour pressure but also included exceedances for aromatics and sulphur limits. There was a slight increase in exceedances for vapour pressure than last year (up by 2 to 8 in total) but there was a reduction in exceedances for aromatics compared to last year (when there was 10). The transition to vapour pressure limits for the summer grade continues to be a challenge for retailers to run-down sufficiently any existing winter grade stock before the summer grade requirements applied. The exceedances on vapour pressure and the other parameters are generally by very small amounts so the impact is likely to be negligible. 

For diesel, there was only two exceedances in relation to sulphur and one with respect to FAME, which is similar to last year. The sulphur limit exceedances were single occurrences and by only a small amount so no significant impact to vehicles or the environment is likely to have resulted. The exceedance for FAME was marginally above the permitted 7%, so again likely to have no impact.


Notes:
There were neither additional parameters measured nor any excluded. In total 5 parameter of petrol samples exceeded the tolerance limits (DFVP: 62,7; 63,5 and 62,7 in „Super“ and 64,1 in "Normal; Aromatics: 39,3 in "Super")


Notes:
The ministerial ruling of January 24th 2002 approving the internal regulations of the Management Committee of the Petroleum Products Analysis Fund describes the operation of the Fapetro Fund. Detailled information about our EN ISO 17020 accredited organisation can be provided on demand.


Notes:
1. In 2020 were taken and tested 239 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 127 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98) and 112 samples of diesel fuel. The number of taken  samples was proportionate to the consumption by regions. Samples taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested only in a permanently sited laboratory.
In 2020 the consumption of petrol RON>=98 was 7,4% of the total amount of petrol on the market.
The marketed fuels were mainly produced by one Bulgarian refinery. One part was imported from abroad.
2. Besides parameters, referred to in the Directive and in the Report Tables, most samples were tested also for other parameters like: Density and Distillation characteristics – evaporated at 70 oC, Final boiling point and Distillation residue, for petrol; Flash point and Cold Filter plugging point for diesel fuel.
3. For any established non-compliance were taken enforcement actions, according to the Clean Ambient Air Act, as well as the Regulation on the liquid fuels quality requirements, conditions, order and way of their control.
When establishing nonconformities, control bodyies prohibit placing on the market, distribution, transportation or use of liquid fuels and order liquid fuels to be withdrawn from the market.
The deviations from the quality requirements by the parameters given in “Methods&Limits” in the present Report, for samples taken for the purposes of FQMS, as well as the imposed sanctions for these infringements, are described in Tables “Diesel (1)” and “Diesel (1+2)”.
In one of the diesel fuel samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Flash point”. The sample was tested in the accredited stationary laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 2719:2004. The limit value of this parameter is over 55 °C, R=3.7, the expanded limit value is over 52.8°C. The measured value was 51.5 °C. For this infringement was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva (BGN).
4. The samples of liquid fuels taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested for all mandatory parameters.
5. There are no regions in the country not to be covered by the monitoring program.


Notes:
In 2020 were taken and tested 405 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 203 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON 100) and 202 samples of diesel fuel. According to the national legislation which transposed the Fuel Quality Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of any exceedance of prescribed fuel quality. Enforcement is under responsibility of Market Inspection (State Inspectorate, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 127/19).According to the national legislation which transposed the FQM Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of not submitting data to the National database established by Ministry of economy and sustainable development. Enforcement is under responsibility of Environmental Inspection (State Inspectorate, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 127/19).


Notes:
1. Some other parameters for diesel and petrol that are not required to be reported, have also been measured. For example, water content, distillation at 250 and 350oC, CFPP point and cetane index are also measured in diesel samples. Furthermore, parameters like distillation at 70oC, FBP and residue are  measured for many petrol samples. Vapour Pressure is also measured for winter period (max 80kPa) but is not included in this report as it is not required.

2. Fuel grade of Unleaded Petrol 100 octane, was  marketed in Cyprus in 2020 in very low quantities and min sample requirement is less 1 sample. Also,  Fuel grade of Unleaded Petrol 98 octane had small share in Cyprus market and the calculated minimum sample requirement is 4. 

3. Summer period is from 16/4-15/10 and winter period is from 16/10-15/4. Transition period from summer to winter and vice versa is set to 6 weeks. Some of the vapour pressure measurements "appear to be out of specifications" according to this template because the measurements of these samples were within the transition period.  

4. Three samples of RON 95 found out of specs in vapour pressure. However, these cases are covered by the Notice on the application of Article 3 of Directive 98/70/EC with regard to the maximum vapour pressure for petrol published on 20/04/20 (2020/C 127/02).   Therefore, no penal prosecution was raised for these samples.

5. Furthermore,  in 3 other cases samples were found to be out of specs : a) 1 sample of RON 95 found to be out of specs in vapour pressure with more than 60oC (not covered by the notice 2020/C 127/02) , b) 1 sample of RON 98 found to be out of specs in vapour pressure with more than 60oC (not covered by the notice 2020/C 127/02) and c) 1 sample of diesel with suplhur exceeded the 10ppm limit. 
In these three cases the fuels were immediately out of sale and the responsible company faced penal prosecution.


Notes:
The process control of the fuel monitoring quality is coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic in accordance with the national legislation and Directive 98/70/EC as amended in the specification for petrol and diesel fuels, which were sold on the Czech fuel market in 2020. 
The fuel quality monitoring has been conducted in accordance with FQMS of the European standard EN 14274:2013 and its national Czech version ČSN EN 14274:2013 with the use of regional model C, in consistent with the Czech national legislation and Czech standards for petrol and diesel, but in their final amendment versions for petrol (EN 228:2012 + A12017 and ČSN EN 228:2013 +A12018 and ČSN EN 590:2014). 
The total number of the fuel quality samples by the Directive 98/70/EC has been checked in 2241 samples. It means 867 samples of petrol and 1103 samples of diesel, plus 11 samples of artic clima in winter time, or similar winter conditions, it means 1114 samples of diesel, in sum. The total number of the basic fuel quality samples has been checked in 1970 samples. 
The required parameter for petrol vapor pressure after bioethanol as an addition of bio component was measured higher than the limit value of 60 kPa in several control samples, which is related to the error due to mixing of winter and summer petrol in petrol stations in the transition period. The Czech Republic solves this problem with the national NA application in the standard ČSN EN 228 by extending the transitional period from winter to summer until 21 May in order to explain the increased values in the vapor pressure indicator, which is also stated in the relevant notes on exceedances.
In the comparison with the year 2019 was the requirement of customers for biofuels in the same situation of the higher bio component content in the Czech market. The requirement of consumers has been reduced to a minimum as previous year, for example FAME – 100% biodiesel and blended diesel (mixed diesel fuel) were not purchased on the Czech market in 2020. Ethanol 85 was purchased only in a very low quantities, it means 8 samples. However, purchases of gaseous fuels were in higher quantities as alternative fuels, similar as last year 2019, namely LPG and CNG, respectively, LNG.
The number of additional fuel samples included 8 samples of Ethanol 85, for gaseous fuel grade as alternative fuels, it means 32 samples of CNG – Natural Gas and 219 samples of LPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas. The total number of fuel samples was checked in 2241control samples at the service stations in the whole country. It means with the sum of all additional required fuels of 259 samples (like E85, LPG and CNG).


Notes:
In 2020 all samples (petrol and diesel) are taken at service stations.
All samples are in complience with the limits in the directive, except 5 samples which are outside the 95 % tolerance limit for aromatics.

Numbers of samples taken in 2020: 
RON 92:  5 samples
RON 95: 100 samples
RON 98+: 4 samples
Diesel: 100 samples.

Denmark has been granted Artic Waiver. 
The mean ethanol content in petrol-samples (RON 92, RON 95 and RON 98+) was 7,96 %, 9,06 % and 4,77 %. The mean FAME-content in diesel was 6,71 %.


Notes:
Sampling was done in the whole country according to the sampling plan following the guidelines of a standard EN 14274:2013 model A. Country was divided to 3 macro-regions with about same sales volume and variability factor.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Fuel grades investigated were unleaded RON 95  E10 and RON 98 E5 sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) petrol and sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) diesel fuel. These fuels were furthermore divided into summer and winter grade. Since the sales volume for RON 99 octane petrol was small (less than 2 %) it was excluded from the actual sampling. In addition, there was no quality under RON 95 octane on the market. All samples were taken at retail sites.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Breaches of tolerance limit: Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade): One aromatics value (36,1 % v/v) is above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) and above the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v). No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. Observed concentrations between the limit values and the tolerance limits:  Petrol 95 E10 (summer grade): The lowest RON value 94,6 is below the minimum limit value 95,0 but with in the minimum tolerance limit 94,6. Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade): The lowest RON value 94,8 is below the minimum limit value 95,0 but with in the minimum tolerance limit 94,6. Two MON numbers (84,7 and 84,9) are below the minimum limit value (85,0) but within the the minimum tolerance limit value (84,5). Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade):  Three aromatics values (35,2, 35,3 and 35,5 % v/v) are above the maximum limit value(35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v).  Four ethanol values (5,1, 5,1, 5,1 and 5,2 % v/v) are above the maximum limit value (5,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (5,3 % v/v).  Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade):  Three aromatics values (35,2, 35,3 ans 35,3 % v/v) are above the maximum limit value (35,0 % v/v) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (36,0 % v/v).  FN5: One ethanol value (5,1 % m/m) is above the maximum limit value (5,0 % m/m) but within the maximum tolerance limit value (5,3 % m/m). One oxygen value (2,8 m/m) is above the maximum limit value (2,7 % m/m) but within the maximum tolerance limit value(2,9 % m/m).


Notes:
In the sampling periods of 2020 a total of 1276 samples were taken (858 petrol, 418 diesel). While the overall number of diesel and petrol fuel samples in summer meets the requirements of large countries (L, 200), the overall number of samples is too low in the winter period for Super E5 and Super E10 petrol fuels and diesel, mainly due to one federal state being short (see below) compared to its minimum required number of samples.                                                                                                            
The federal state "Brandenburg" refuses to sample in both  periods (winter and summer) each year. Instead, only one period is alternatingly sampled with twice the minimum required number of samples. In 2020, the samples were taken in the summer period, consequently leading to missing samples in the winter period. 
24 non-compliant samples are reported when taking into account the limit tolerance of the methods. Nine of the non-compliant samples showed  high exceedances in the parameter Vapour Pressure (DVPE). The federal states argued that this can be explained by "winter petrol fuel" that was left over inside the tanks at the time of sample taking due to a very low consumption of fuel during the Covid-19-pandemic. For details, see “Petrol” and “Diesel” sections of this template. 
Regarding the two fuels diesel (EN590) and petrol (EN228) all parameters of the corresponding standard are part of the German national FQMS. There is a minimum set of fuel quality parameters defined which is much smaller. The German minimum parameter set does not yet cover the full set of parameters of the FQD. The requirement will be harmonized in the next revision of the German General Administrative Regulation.
In case of exceeding the tolerance value on any of the parameters it must be determined who is responsible for the insufficient quality of the fuel in question. In most cases a fine will be imposed if the distributor can be proven guilty of fraud or negligence. 

In 2020, 0,88 Mio. tonnes of Super Plus (RON98) fuel were sold in Germany. This is a total (diesel and petrol) market share of 1.71 % and 5,40 % of its parent fuel grade petrol. For this reason the sampling of Super Plus comprises a smaller amount of samples.


Notes:
The highest percentage of petrol sales is held by unleaded petrol (RON > 95), while super unleaded (RON>98) follows.  It was observed in certain occasions that  the FAME content in Diesel samples exceeds the limiting value of 7% v/v. However, no further action was taken due to fact that the rest of the sample characteristics were within legal limits, as well as the fact that the fuel dispensing pumps were  labelled as Diesel B10. 
Four (4) diesel samples were found to contain sulfur in concentrations ranging from 11,2mg/Kg to 18,2mg/Kg. For the above, administrative fines were imposed and further judicial prosecution was initiated.    
Ten (10) summer 95 RON petrol samples and two (2) 100 RON summer petrol samples were found to exceed vapour pressure ranging from 63 KPa  to 75 KPa. 
However,  the “Notice on the application of Article 3 of Directive 98/70/EC with regard to the maximum vapour pressure” by the Commission (2020/C 127/02) took into account the exceptional circumstances of the restrictive measures taken in response to the Covid-19 crisis where no “winter petrol” was to be placed on the market during the summer period 2020 other than what was still in stock by 1 May 2020 in Member States with low ambient temperatures.  
Hence, Greece has allowed for an extension to the maximum limits of the Vapor Pressure up to 80KPa for 2 months (May, June) based on the Independent Authority of Public Revenue Governors’ Decisions (ΑΔΑ: 6ΛΘΚ46ΜΠ3Ζ-ΨΝ8/07-05-2020 and 6ΣΣ546ΜΠ3Ζ-82Δ/16-06-2020). Therefore, the non-compliance in vapour pressure was attributed to the aforementioned circumstances.


Notes:
Very few samples were outside of parameter tolerance limits. Manganese was not analysed.


Notes:
Samples are taken by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association at service stations and are analysed by ITS Testing Services (UK) Ltd.  Results are reported to the Department by the Irish Petroleum Industry Association.  100 samples of both petrol and diesel were tested during the year (50 in summer and 50 in winter).   There were four exceedances detected, all for levels of DVPE in summer petrol samples.


Notes:
As a result of fuel quality monitoring in Latvia, it can be concluded that fuel offered in the market complies with the quality requirements. From 129 samples only 3 are non-compliant: one diesel and two petrol samples. The State Construction Cotrol Bureau has informed the competent authority (the State Revenue Service) about the non-compliant fuel. In result, the State Revenue Service has launched administrative infringement processes resulting in financial penalties being imposed. Fuel samples are taken from refuelling stations (selected at random) in all regions of Latvia.  All parameters are tested according to the “methods and Limits” sheet.


Notes:
The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority checked 472 fuel (petrol, diesel, marin fuel and others) samples per 2020 year.  152 petrol samples were taken from which 108  petrol samples were for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the test results there were no non -compliance petrol samples.  According to the results there were not found  incompliance in diesel samples, taken for fuel quality monitoring system. National Specification permits higher Petrol Vapour pressure values, so checked values exceed the maximum permitted values in the Directive 2009/30/EC. 243 diesel samples were taken per 2020 year from which 100 samples were  for fuel quality monitoring system. Attention should be paid that national specification permits higher the maximum diesel FAME content value in compare with the Directive 2009/30/EC.


Notes:
For summer and winter  period 0 sample of fuel grade 95 and 98 and 0 sample of Diesel exeeded the tolerance limits.  Because of the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and because of the state of crisis that has been declared on the national territory sampling was not possible in April, May, June and July 2020.


Notes:
A total of  two hundred and fourteen (214) fuel samples were analysed in year 2020 comprising of hundred and four (104)diesel samples,  hundred and four (104) unleaded petrol minimum RON 95 samples, and six (6) unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 samples. Unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 makes less than 10% market share of the parent grade and hence fewer samples are required.  No exceedances were observed in all the unleaded petrol samples (minimum RON 95 and minimum RON 98 samples) and all the diesel samples taken and therefore the unleaded petrol samples were all  within the SM EN 228 quality standard specifications and the diesel samples were all within the EN 590 quality standard specifications.


Notes:
This year, out of the 100 unleaded gasoline samples and 100 diesel samples taken, none of the samples exceeded the tolerance limit.


Notes:
Short description of the fuel grades and the distribution of fuels in Norway: In Norway the main fuel grades are 95 octane, 98 octane and autodiesel. In 2020 the total amount of fuel delivered to road transport was 3.813.384 m3. There are five main oil companies in Norway (St1 Norge, Circle K Norge, Esso Norge, Uno-X Energi and Preem Norge) and they covered about 95 % of the fuel market in 2020. There are two refineries in Norway (Mongstad and Slagen). The distribution of fuel is covered from 26 regional distribution sites and about 50 smaller local sites. There were approximately 1700 petrol stations in Norway in 2020.


Notes:
W 2020 roku w zakresie analitycznym niniejszego raportu nie odnotowano żadnej próbki oleju napędowego oraz benzyny RON 98, która niespełniałaby dopuszczalnych norm ujętych w raporcie parametrów. 
Odnośnie badań prób benzyny RON 95 odnotowano trzy próby niezgodne z wymaganiami: dwie z przekroczoną dopuszczalną wartością badawczej liczby oktanowej oraz jedną z dwoma przekroczonymi parametrami (motorową oraz badawczą liczbą oktanową jednocześnie).  We wszystkich powyższych przypadkach negatywnych wyników badań laboratoryjnych skierowano zawiadomienia do Prezesa Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki oraz Prokuratury.


Notes:
The minimum number of samples/year set for small countries, establish in the European Standard EN 14274 is 300 samples.
Given the lower quantities of petrol I.O. 98 sold, and according with the European Standard EN 14274, the minimum number for this product was reduced from 100/year to 8, being the total number of analyzes/year reduced to 208. The National Entity for Energy Sector (ENSE) is responsible for the execution of the Fuel Quality Monitoring System (FQMS).
According to the information provided by that entity, the sampling plan for the 2020 FQMS was fulfilled. However, as a result of the International Tender for the provision of fuel analysis services to ENSE and the situation experienced in consequence of the pandemic caused by Covid 19, the Spanish laboratory that won the tender, was unable to travel to Portugal to collect the samples for analysis. Samples taken at filling stations have been properly stored by ENSE and were later collected by the laboratory, but the analysis of the total samples was not completed in time for this report to be sent. 
Since it is now possible to present the results of the missing analyses, this revised report is submitted, which includes a total of 289 samples collected at filling stations (136 in summer and 153 in winter). Samples collected in intermediate periods of April and October are not considered in the FQMS.
Exceeded tolerance limits constitute an infraction punishable by fine, which involves reporting to the responsible authority for prosecution.


Notes:
Romania monitors all parameters and considers the tolerance limits from the standards applying to each method.  From 2019, we added a mass balance that links the of introducing B0 on the market, with compensatory actions during the non-winter period.


Notes:
The EFQMS has been run during 2020 according EN-14274 standard in the category of big country model A. 
Samples have been taken in service stations, storage facilities in order to reach sample number required in model A. "Gasolina 98" grade is les that 10% of the total petrol sales and, consequently, less samples have been taken. In 2020 there has been a special waiver to allow winter petrol specification to be applied until 30th June.
Number of samples out of specification limits has been low with no negative trend in quality regarding previous years.


Notes:
The Swedish alternative system combines compilation of fuel quality data at the terminals with the sampling of petrol and diesel at actual refuelling stations. The latter is to guarantee the national monitoring systems equivalence to the CEN system. The reported data at the terminals, that includes all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market, represents more than 98% of the sales of petrol and diesel in Sweden. The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet.                                                                                                                                                                 Drivkraft Sverige (The former Swedish Petroleum and Biofuel Institute) compiles the fuel quality data at the terminals on behalf of The Swedish Transport Agency that verifies the data, of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency has not found any exceedances of the limit values at terminals in 2020. The data from the terminals also showed good equivalency for both petrol and diesel with the samples from the actual refuelling stations (crosschecking) in 2020.


Notes:
There were neither additional parameters measured nor any excluded. In total 2 parameter of petrol samples exceeded the tolerance limits (DFVP: 62,43; 62,75  in „Super“).


Notes:
1. In 2021 were taken and tested 246 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 129 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON>=98) and 117 samples of diesel fuel. The number of taken samples was proportionate to the consumption by regions. Samples taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested only in a permanently sited laboratory.
In 2021 the consumption of petrol RON>=98 was 7,73% of the total amount of petrol on the market.
The marketed fuels were mainly produced by one Bulgarian refinery. One part was imported from abroad.
2. Besides parameters, referred to in the Directive and in the Report Tables, most samples were tested also for other parameters like: Density and Distillation characteristics – evaporated at 70 ⁰C, Final boiling point and Distillation residue, for petrol; Flash point and Cold Filter plugging point for diesel fuel.
3. For any established non-compliance were taken enforcement actions, according to the Clean Ambient Air Act, The Law of Renewable Energy Sources, as well as the Regulation on the liquid fuels quality requirements, conditions, order and way of their control.
When establishing nonconformities, control bodies prohibit placing on the market, distribution, transportation or use of liquid fuels and order liquid fuels to be withdrawn from the market.
The deviations from the quality requirements by the parameters given in “Methods&Limits” in the present Report, for samples taken for the purposes of FQMS, as well as the imposed sanctions for these infringements, are described in Tables “Petrol (1)”, “Petrol (2)”, “Petrol (1+2)”, “Diesel (1)” and “Diesel (1+2)”.
In two of the petrol samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Distillation characteristics – Final boiling point”. The samples were tested in the accredited permanently sited laboratory of Directorate General “Quality Control of liquid fuels” (DG QCLF), in accordance with BDS EN ISO 3405:2019. The limit value of this parameter is max 210 °C, R=6,78 (for result below 260 °C), the expanded limit value is max 214 °C. The deviations were 220,2 °C and 220,4 °C. For each nonconformity was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva (BGN).
In two of the diesel fuel samples taken for the purposes of FQMS was established non-compliance with the quality requirements by the parameter “Flash point”. The samples were tested in the accredited stationary laboratory of DG QCLF, in accordance with BDS EN ISO 2719:2016. The limit value of this parameter is over 55 °C, R=3,7, the expanded limit value is over 52,8 °C. The deviations were 47,5 °C and 52,5 °C. For each nonconformity was imposed pecuniary sanction of 10 000 leva (BGN).
 4. The samples of liquid fuels taken for the purposes of FQMS were tested for all mandatory parameters.
5. There are no regions in the country not to be covered by the monitoring program.


Notes:
In 2021 were taken and tested 406 samples for the purposes of FQMS including 198 samples of petrol (RON 95 and RON 100) and 208 samples of diesel fuel. According to the national legislation which transposed the Fuel Quality Directive, the distributors are penalized in case of any exceedance of prescribed fuel quality. Enforcement is under responsibility of Market Inspection (State Inspectorate, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 127/19, 57/22).According to the national legislation which transposed the FQM Directive, the distributors are penalized in the case for not submitting data to the National database established by Ministry of economy and sustainable development. Enforcement is under responsibility of Environmental Inspection (State Inspectorate, Republic of Croatia). Penalties are included in the Air Protection Law (OG No. 127/19, 57/22).


Notes:
1. Some parameters for diesel and petrol that are not required to be reported, have also been measured. For example, water content, distillation at 250 and 350 °C, CFPP point and cetane index are also measured in diesel samples. Furthermore, parameters like distillation at 70 °C, FBP and residue are measured for many petrol samples. Vapour Pressure is also measured for winter period (max 80kPa) but is not included in this report as it is not required.

2. Unleaded Petrol 100 octane fuel grade was marketed in Cyprus in 2021 in very low quantities and min sample requirement is less 1 sample. Also, Unleaded Petrol 98 octane fuel grade had small share in Cyprus market and the calculated minimum sample requirement is 4. 

3. Summer period is from 16/4-15/10 and winter period is from 16/10-15/4. Transition period from summer to winter and vice versa is set to 6 weeks. Some of the vapour pressure measurements "appear to be out of specifications" according to this template because the measurements of these samples were within the transition period.  

4. Out of specs samples were found in 3 cases: a) 1 sample of RON 95 and 2 of RON 98 found to be out of specs in vapour pressure with more than 60 kPa. 
In all cases the fuels were immediately out of sale and the responsible company faced penal prosecution.


Notes:
The process control of the fuel monitoring quality is coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic in accordance with the national legislation and Directive 98/70/EC as amended in the specification for petrol and diesel fuels, which were sold on the Czech fuel market in 2021. 
The fuel quality monitoring has been conducted in accordance with FQMS of the European standard EN 14274:2013 and its national Czech version ČSN EN 14274:2013 with the use of regional model C, in consistent with the Czech national legislation and Czech standards for petrol and diesel, and then in their final amendment versions for petrol (EN 228:2012 + A12017 and ČSN EN 228:2013 +A12018 and ČSN EN 590:2014). 
The total number of the fuel quality samples by the Directive 98/70/EC has been checked in 2262 samples. It means 1015 samples of petrol and 1242 samples of diesel, plus 5 samples of artic clima in winter time, or similar winter conditions, it means 1247 samples of diesel, in sum. The total number of the basic fuel quality samples has been checked in 2262 samples. 
The required parameter for petrol vapor pressure after bioethanol as an addition of bio component was measured higher than the limit value of 60 kPa in several control samples, which is related to the error due to mixing of winter and summer petrol in petrol stations in the transition period. The Czech Republic solves this problem with the national NA application in the standard ČSN EN 228 by extending the transitional period from winter to summer until 21 May in order to explain the increased values in the vapor pressure indicator, which is also stated in the relevant notes on exceedances.
In the comparison with the year 2020 was the requirement of customers for biofuels in the same state as the year 2021with an interest of the higher bio component content of biofuels in the Czech market. The requirement of consumers has been reduced to a minimum as previous year, for example FAME – 100% biodiesel and blended diesel (mixed diesel fuel) were not purchased on the Czech market in 2021. Ethanol 85 was purchased only in a very low quantities, it has been controlled by 4 samples. However, purchases of gaseous fuels were in higher quantities, it means as alternative fuels, similar as last year 2020, namely LPG and CNG, respectively, LNG.
The number of additional fuel samples included 4 samples of Ethanol 85, for gaseous fuel grade as alternative fuels, it means 40 samples of CNG – Natural Gas and 304 samples of LPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas. The total number of fuel samples was checked in 2611 control samples at the service stations in the whole country. It means with the sum of all additional required fuels of 348 samples (like E85, LPG and CNG).


Notes:
In 2021 all samples (petrol and diesel) are taken at service stations.
All samples are in complience with the limits in the directive, except 7 samples which are outside the 95 % tolerance limit for aromatics.

Numbers of samples taken in 2021: 
RON 92:  2 samples
RON 95: 100 samples
RON 98+: 10 samples
Diesel: 100 samples.

Denmark has been granted Artic Waiver. 
The mean ethanol content in petrol-samples (RON 92, RON 95 and RON 98+) was 9,79 %, 9,59 % and 4,75 %. The mean FAME-content in diesel was 6,03 %.


Notes:
Sampling was done in the whole country according to the sampling plan following the guidelines of a standard EN 14274:2013 model A. Country was divided to 3 macro-regions with about same sales volume and variability factor.  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Fuel grades investigated were unleaded RON 95  E10 and RON 98 E5 sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) petrol and sulphur free (max. 10 mg/kg) diesel fuel. These fuels were furthermore divided into summer and winter grade. Since the sales volume for RON 99 octane petrol was small (less than 2 %) it was excluded from the actual sampling. In addition, there was no quality under RON 95 octane on the market. All samples were taken at retail sites.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Breaches of tolerance limit: Diesel (winter grade): One FAME value 10,8 % v/v is above the maximum tolerance limit value 7,3 % v/v.  This result has also been confirmed by offical method EN 14078:2014 done by external contractor. No reason was found and special enforcement actions were not deemed necessary. Sample was also taken from same station in later period time and this FAME -result 0,6 % v/v is with in the maximum limit value 7,0 % v/v. Observed concentrations between the limit values and the tolerance limits:  Petrol 95 E10 (summer grade):  One sulphur value 11,3 mg/kg is above the maximum limit value 10,0 mg/kg but with in the maximum tolerance limit 11,6 mg/kg. Six aromatics values (35,1, 2 x 35,3, 35,6, 35,7 and 35,9 % v/v) are above the maximum limit value 35,0 % v/v but with in the maximum tolerance limit 36,0 % v/v. Petrol 95 E10 (winter grade): Four RON values ( 2 x 94,8 and 2 x 94,9) are below the minimum limit value 95,0 but with in the minimum tolerance limit 94,6. One ethanol value 10,1 % v/v is above the maximum limit value 10,0 % v/v but with in the maximum tolerance limit 10,4 % v/v. Two oxygen values (3,8 and 3,9 % m/m) are above the maximum limit value 3,7 % m/m but with in the maximum tolerance limit value 3,9 % m/m. Petrol 98 E5 (summer grade):  Fiveteen aromatics values (35,1, 35,2, 2 x 35,3, 35,4, 35,6, 2 x 35,7, 2 x 35,8, 4 x 35,9 and 36,0 % v/v are above the maximum limit value 35,0 % v/v but within the maximum tolerance limit value 36,0 % v/v. Fourteen oxygen values (14 x 2,8 % m/m) are above the maximum limit value 2,7 % m/m but within the maximum tolerance limit value 2,9 % m/m. Four ethanol values (4 x 5,1 % v/v) are above the maximum limit value 5,0 % v/v but within the maximum tolerance limit value 5,3 % v/v. Petrol 98 E5 (winter grade):  Two ethanol values (5,2 and 5,3 % v/v) are above the maximun limit value 5,0 % v/v but with in the maximum tolerance limit value 5,3 % v/v. Three oxygen values (2 x 2,8 and 2,9 % m/m) are above the maximum limit value 2,7 % m/m but with in the maximum tolerance limit value 2,9 % m/m.


Notes:
In the sampling periods of 2021 a total of 1273 samples were taken (858 petrol, 415 diesel). While the overall number of diesel and petrol fuel samples in summer meets the requirements of large countries (L, 200), the overall number of samples is too low in the summer period for Super E5 and Super E10 petrol fuels and diesel, mainly due to one federal state being short (see below) compared to its minimum required number of samples.
The federal state "Brandenburg" refuses to sample in both periods (winter and summer) each year. Instead, only one period is alternatingly sampled with twice the minimum required number of samples. In 2021, the samples were taken in the winter period, consequently leading to missing samples in the summer period. 
Seven non-compliant samples are reported when taking into account the limit tolerance of the methods. Two samples (one Super E10, one Super E5) showed exceedances in the parameter Vapour Pressure (DVPE). Another two Super E10 samples exceeded the sulphur limit. Furthermore two Diesel samples exceeded the FAME limit. For details, see “Petrol” and “Diesel” sections of this template. 
Regarding the two fuels diesel (EN590) and petrol (EN228) all parameters of the corresponding standard are part of the German national FQMS. There is a minimum set of fuel quality parameters defined which is much smaller. The German minimum parameter set does not yet cover the full set of parameters of the FQD. The requirement will be harmonized in the next revision of the German General Administrative Regulation.
In case of exceeding the tolerance value on any of the parameters it must be determined who is responsible for the insufficient quality of the fuel in question. In most cases a fine will be imposed if the distributor can be proven guilty of fraud or negligence. 
In 2021, 0,93 Mio. tonnes of Super Plus (RON98) fuel were sold in Germany. This is a total (diesel and petrol) market share of 1.79 % and 5,61 % of its parent fuel grade petrol. For this reason the sampling of Super Plus comprises a smaller amount of samples.


Notes:
The highest percentage of petrol sales is held by unleaded petrol (RON > 95), while super unleaded (RON>98) follows. Lead Replacement Petrol has a negligible cut of the fuel market, while regular petrol is not marketed at all.  It was observed in certain occasions that  the FAME content in Diesel samples exceeds the limiting value of 7% v/v. However, no further action was taken due to fact that the rest of the sample characteristics were within legal limits, as well as the fact that the fuel dispensing pumps were  labelled as Diesel B10. 
Two (2) diesel samples were found to contain sulfur in concentrations ranging from 23,7mg/Kg to 31,9mg/Kg. For the aforementioned, administrative fines were imposed.     
Four (4) summer 95 RON petrol samples were found to exceed vapour pressure ranging from 66KPa to 72,3KPa.  
However,  the “Notice on the application of Article 3 of Directive 98/70/EC with regard to the maximum vapour pressure” by the Commission (2020/C 127/02) took into account the exceptional circumstances of the restrictive measures taken in response to the Covid-19 crisis where no “winter petrol” was to be placed on the market during the summer period 2021 other than what was still in stock by 1 May 2021 in Member States with low ambient temperatures.  
Hence, Greece has allowed for an extension to the maximum limits of the Vapor Pressure up to 80KPa for 2 months (May, June) based on the Independent Authority of Public Revenue Governors’ Decisions (ΑΔΑ: ΩΞ7Κ46ΜΠ3Ζ-5ΗΘ). Therefore, the non-compliance in vapour pressure was attributed to the aforementioned circumstances.


Notes:
Samples are taken by Fuels For Ireland (FFI - formerly known as the Irish Petroleum Industry Association (IPIA)) at service stations and are analysed by ITS Testing Services (UK) Ltd. Results are reported to the Department by Fuels For Ireland. 100 samples of both petrol and diesel were tested during the year. However, due to scheduling difficulties in 2021, four samples which were due to be taken in late August for summer period sampling were not in fact taken until early September, and therefore fall in the winter period. We are therefore this year reporting on 46 summer samples and 54 winter samples. There were no exceedances detected.


Notes:
As a result of fuel quality monitoring in Latvia, it can be concluded that the fuel offered in the market complies with the quality requirements. Overall 293 fuel samples have been taken for fuel quality assessment, including 125 diesel fuel samples, and 168 petrol samples from service stations in all regions of Latvia. From 293 samples, 6 are non-compliant: 3 diesel and 3 petrol samples. The State Construction Control Bureau has informed the competent authority (the State Revenue Service) about the non-compliant fuel. As result, the State Revenue Service has launched administrative infringement processes resulting in financial penalties being imposed. All parameters are tested according to the “methods and Limits” sheet.


Notes:
The State Consumer Rights Protection Authority checked 546 fuel (petrol, diesel, marin fuel and others) samples per 2021 year.  166 petrol samples were taken from which 104  petrol samples were for fuel quality monitoring system. According to the test results there were no non -compliance petrol samples.  According to the results there were not found  incompliance in diesel samples, taken for fuel quality monitoring system. National Specification permits higher Petrol Vapour pressure values, so checked values exceed the maximum permitted values in the Directive 2009/30/EC. 226 diesel samples were taken per 2021 year from which 100 samples were  for fuel quality monitoring system. Attention should be paid that national specification permits higher the maximum diesel FAME content value in compare with the Directive 2009/30/EC. A-98(RON 98) petrol comprising <10% of total petrolium sales, so only a few samples (4 samples) were taken for quality assessment analysis. All A-98 (RON 98) petrol samples were sampled during the winter period and no samples were taken during the summer period.


Notes:
For summer period  3 samples of fuel grade 95  (Mon: 1x84, DVPE: 1x61.8 and Sulphur: 1x10.7) and  6 samples of fuel grade 98 (DVPE: 62.2/62.1/61.8/61.6 and 2X61.4) exeeded the tolerance limits.  An item of written command by the operating company is required.


Notes:
A total of  two hundred and seventeen (217) fuel samples were analysed in year 2021 comprising of hundred and seven (107) diesel samples,  hundred and four (104) unleaded petrol minimum RON 95 samples, and six (6) unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 samples. Unleaded petrol minimum RON 98 makes less than 10% market share of the parent grade and hence fewer samples are required.  No exceedances were observed in all the unleaded petrol samples (minimum RON 95 and minimum RON 98 samples)and hence the unleaded petrol were all within the SM EN 228 quality standards.  The majority of the diesel samples were found to be within the EN 590 specifications except for the  exceedences of five (5) FAME content. The enforcement actions for these exceedences are explained in details in worksheet diesel (1), diesel (2) and diesel (1+2).


Notes:
This year, out of the 100 unleaded Petrol samples and 100 diesel samples taken, none of the samples exceeded the tolerance limit.


Notes:
W 2021 roku w zakresie analitycznym niniejszego raportu nie odnotowano żadnej próbki oleju napędowego, która niespełniałaby dopuszczalnych norm ujętych w raporcie parametrów. 
Odnośnie badań prób benzyn odnotowano jedną próbę niezgodną z wymaganiami. Dla benzyny RON 98 z przekroczono dopuszczalną wartością parametru prężność par, jednakże dla okresu zimowego (wg krajowych wymagań, stąd brak w tabeli "Petrol (2)").  Dla benzyny RON 95 przekroczono dopuszczalną wartością jednoczesnie parametru zawartość tlenu oraz całkowita zawartość związków organicznych zawierających tlen - etanol. We wszystkich powyższych przypadkach negatywnych wyników badań laboratoryjnych skierowano zawiadomienia do Prezesa Urzędu Regulacji Energetyki oraz Prokuratury.


Notes:
The minimum number of samples/year set for small countries, establish in the European Standard EN 14274 is 300 samples.
Given the lower quantities of petrol I.O. 98 sold, and according with the European Standard EN 14274, the minimum number for this product was reduced from 100/year to 8, being the total number of analyzes/year reduced to 208. The National Entity for Energy Sector (ENSE) is responsible for the execution of the Fuel Quality Monitoring System (FQMS).
According to the information provided by that entity, the samples total number for the 2021 FQMS was fulfilled. 
The present report includes a total of 524 samples collected at filling stations (369 in summer and 155 in winter). Samples collected in intermediate periods of April and October are not considered in the FQMS.
Exceeded tolerance limits constitute an infraction punishable by fine, which involves reporting to the responsible authority for prosecution.


Notes:
Romania monitors all parameters and considers the tolerance limits from the standards applying to each method.  From 2019, we added a mass balance that links the introducing of B0 on the market, with compensatory actions during the non-winter period. During the 2021 sampling activity, there was an exceedance of parameter limit of density regarding one sample of diesel (summer period) and for other sample of diesel (winter period) there was an exceedance of paramter density. There were  exceedances of vapour pressure that are authorized during the summer period, provided that the ethanol used is a biofuel.


Notes:
Three samples of diesel fuel, which were taken in winter, exceeded the limit values. In one sample, the sulfur content was measured at 12 mg/kg (limit value: 10 mg/kg). In two samples, the FAME content was measured at 8.8% and 12.4% (limit value: 7%). We reported these measurements to the Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for the Environment and Spatial Planning.


Notes:
The EFQMS has been run during 2021 according EN-14274 standard in the category of big country model A. 
Samples have been taken in service stations, storage facilities and refineries in order to reach sample number required in model A. "Gasolina 98" grade is les that 10% of the total petrol sales and, consequently, less samples have been taken.
Number of samples out of specification limits has been low with no negative trend in quality regarding previous years.


Notes:
The Swedish alternative system combines compilation of fuel quality data at the terminals with the sampling of petrol and diesel at actual refuelling stations. The latter is to guarantee the national monitoring systems equivalence to the CEN system. The reported data at the terminals, that includes all batches produced in Sweden and all import batches for the Swedish market, represents more than 98% of the sales of petrol and diesel in Sweden. The Swedish alternative system is described in detail under “Sampling” in the “Detailed FQMS” sheet.                                                                                                                                                                 Drivkraft Sverige (The former Swedish Petroleum and Biofuel Institute) compiles the fuel quality data at the terminals on behalf of The Swedish Transport Agency that verifies the data, of this annual Fuel Quality Monitoring Report, before submitting it to the Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR). The Swedish Transport Agency did not find any exceedances of the limit values at terminals in 2021. The data from the terminals also showed good equivalency for both petrol and diesel with the samples from the actual refuelling stations (crosschecking) in 2021.


