8 Protocol bij het Verdrag van 1979 betreffende grensoverschrijdende luchtverontreiniging over lange afstand inzake vermindering van verzuring, eutrofiëring en ozon op leefniveau
Parties other than Canada and the United States of America
Storage and distribution of petrol:
a) Petrol storage installations at terminals, when above the threshold values mentioned in table 1, must be either:
(i) Fixed-roof tanks, which are connected to a vapour recovery unit meeting the ELVs set out in table 1; or
(ii) Designed with a floating roof, either external or internal, equipped with primary and secondary seals meeting the reduction efficiency set out in table 1;
b) As a derogation from the above-mentioned requirements, fixed-roof tanks, which were in operation prior to 1 January 1996 and which are not connected to a vapour recovery unit, must be equipped with a primary seal which is achieving a reduction efficiency of 90%.
Table 1 Limit values for VOC emissions from the storage and distribution of petrol, excluding the loading of seagoing ships (stage I)
Activity | Threshold value | ELV or reduction efficiency
Loading and unloading of mobile container at terminals | 5,000 m3 petrol throughput annually | 10g VOC/m3 including methane1)
Storage installations at terminals | Existing terminals or tank farms with a petrol throughput of 10,000 Mg/year or more New terminals (without thresholds except for terminals located in small remote islands with a throughput less than 5,000 Mg/year) | 95 wt-%2)
Service stations | Petrol throughput larger than 100 m3/year | 0.01wt-% of the throughput3)
1) The vapour displaced by the filling of petrol storage tanks shall be displaced either into other storage tanks or into abatement equipment meeting the limit values in the table above.
2) Reduction efficiency expressed in % compared to a comparable fixed-roof tank with no vapour-containment controls, i.e., with only a vacuum/pressure relief valve.
3) Vapours displaced by the delivery of petrol into storage installations at service stations and in fixed-roof tanks used for the intermediate storage of vapours must be returned through a vapour-tight connection line to the mobile container delivering the petrol. Loading operations may not take place unless the arrangements are in place and properly functioning.
Under these conditions, no additional monitoring of the compliance with the limit value is required.
Table 2 Limit values for VOC emissions for car refuelling at service station (stage II)
Threshold values | Minimum vapour capture efficiency wt-%1)
New service station if its actual or intended throughput is greater than 500 m3 per annum Existing service station if its actual or intended throughput is greater than 3,000 m3 per annum as of 2019 | Equal to or greater than 85% wt-% with a vapour / petrol ration equal to or greater than 0.95 but less than or equal to 1.05 (v/v).
Existing service station if its actual or intended throughput is greater than 500 m3 per annum and which undergoes a major refurbishment
1) The capture efficiency of the systems has to be certified by the manufacturer in accordance with relevant technical standards or type approval procedures.
- Regeling
- Protocol bij het Verdrag van 1979 betreffende grensoverschrijdende luchtverontreiniging over lange afstand inzake vermindering van verzuring, eutrofiëring en ozon op leefniveau
- Afkortingen
- Göteborg Protocol
- Soort
- Verdrag
- Geldend vanaf
- 15-07-2021
- BWB-id
- BWBV0001635
- Versie
- 2021-07-15_0