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October 1, 2006
PETROTOX—CONCAWE’s ecotoxicity predictor for petroleum products
CONCAWE has been conducting a voluntary programme assessing the risks to man and the environment of petroleum substances in anticipation of proposed legislation (REACH). The process by which the risk...
August 13, 2006
Analysis of the CAFE cost benefit analysis
Report no. 4/06: This report discusses a few aspects of the Cost Benefits Analysis that was developed within the context of the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) programme of the European Commission.
The...
June 21, 2006
Techno-economic analysis of the impact of the reduction of sulphur content of residual marine fuels in Europe
Report no. 2/06: Annex VI of the IMO's MARPOL convention is coming into force in 2006 for the Baltic Sea and 2007 for the North Sea, imposing a 1.5% m/m sulphur cap on residual marine fuel (RMF) burne...
May 1, 2006
From science to advocacy
The development of Air Quality legislation involves an increasingly sophisticated use of science in a wide range of fields such as health impact assessment, modelling, emission control technologies an...
May 1, 2006
The case for Gothenburg
The UN-ECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, which last year celebrated its 25th Anniversary, marked the first international response to the concerns over the impacts of long ra...
May 1, 2006
Groundwater and the groundwater daughter directive
The Groundwater Directive (GWD) is a daughter directive of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and has the potential to significantly affect downstream petroleum operations. It is currently undergo...
May 1, 2006
Reducing the sulphur content of residual marine fuels
The legislative context Residual fuel is a commodity used by sea-going vessels the world over. The quality specifications of residual marine or ‘bunker’ fuels (RMF) result essentially from self re...
May 1, 2006
Registration of petroleum substances under REACH
In 1993 the Council adopted Regulation (EEC) 793/93 or the ‘ESR’ (Existing Substances Regulation), thus introducing a comprehensive framework for the evaluation and control of ‘existing’ ch...
May 1, 2006
COPEX 2006
The CONCAWE Oil Pipelines Operators Experience Exchange seminar (COPEX for short) that took place in Brussels on 30–31 March was continuing a long-established tradition. CONCAWE has been active i...
May 1, 2006
Evaporative emissions and ethanol blends
The JRC/EUCAR/CONCAWE consortium was set up in 2000 to carry out technical work of joint interest in the area of advanced fuels and vehicles.
The first major output from the collaboration was th...
April 23, 2006
CONCAWE Review – Spring 2006
Volume 15, number 1: When CONCAWE was established 43 years ago, the oil companies’ objective was to create a framework within which they could jointly carry out technical studies in areas of common...
March 21, 2006
Human exposure information for EU substance risk assessment of gas oils
Report no. 1/06: Information is presented on inhalation and dermal exposures to gas oils for workers in European manufacturing and distribution operations and for consumers, for use in substance risk...
December 22, 2005
European downstream oil industry safety performance: Statistical summary of reported incidents – 2004
Report no. 10/05: The eleventh such report by CONCAWE, this issue includes statistics on work-related personal injuries for the downstream oil industry’s own employees as well as contractors for the...
December 20, 2005
The impact of reducing sulphur to 10 ppm max in european automotive fuels an update
Report no. 8/05: The cost and CO2 emissions associated with the reduction of sulphur in EU road fuels have been evaluated using the CONCAWE EU refining model. The results are compared to those of a si...
November 1, 2005
EU-wide BAT—an expensive suit that doesn’t fit everybody!
The ‘Clean Air For Europe’ (CAFE) programme, carried out over the past three years by the EU Commission’s DG Environment, has resulted in the recent publication of the ‘Thematic Strategy on...
November 1, 2005
Impacts of air pollutant caps on climate
Air pollution is a major issue in an increasing number of megacities around the world, and new policies to address urban air pollution are likely to be enacted in many developing countries irrespectiv...
November 1, 2005
Occupational risks to hearing reviewed
With the publication of CONCAWE report 5/05 an extensive work programme on the factors potentially affecting the hearing of petroleum industry workers has recently been completed by the CONCAWE Hea...
October 23, 2005
CONCAWE Review – Autumn 2005
Volume 14, number 2: 2005 has been a year of positive developments for CONCAWE. Through its heavy involvement in the development of the CAFE programme and in the Fuels Directive review process, our As...
October 1, 2005
Updated CONCAWE guidance for classification and labelling of petroleum substances
The 29th Amendment to Technical Progress (ATP) to the Dangerous Substances Directive (DSD) was published in 2004, and introduced specific changes to the hazard classification (Annex 1 entries) for Pet...
October 1, 2005
Road fuels desulphurisation
For many years CONCAWE has maintained a model of the European refining system in order to be able to evaluate the potential impact of major changes, such as more stringent product specifications or sh...
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