This Directive aims at ensuring the recovering of harmful petrol vapours displaced from the fuel tank of a motor vehicle during refuelling at a service station. In a large number of European service stations petrol pumps must be fitted with a system to recover at least 85% of these vapours.
Les pompes à essence d’un grand nombre de stations-service européennes doivent installer un dispositif pour récupérer 85 % au moins de ces vapeurs.