Specifications for Petroleum Products in France

For each category of petroleum products, either governmental or customs specifications or standards for characteristics generally exist, but sometimes there may be nothing but those conditions usually required in commercial contracts. 

As an example, the following tables show the main specifications and characteristics that are in effect in France as of December 1993. 

These specifications and characteristics are defined with references to standard test methods which the different parties to a contract should conduct for quality control. The tables that follow show specifically the standards that are applicable in France, but a more general table in Appendix 2 shows the main test methods commonly referenced in specifications. 

Collections of specifications are kept up-to-date and are available either at the Chambre Syndicate du Raffinage, or at the CPDP (Centre Professionnel du Petrole), or in documentation available at AFNOR and for which the references are given in the tables hereafter. 

2 CPDP, Tour Corosa, BP 282 - 92505 RUEIL MALMAISON CEDEX - Tel. (1) 47089404. 

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