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BRUSSELS - The European Union will ensure sulphur-free petrol and diesel are fully available by 2009 in a move to promote lower traffic emissions and improve vehicles' fuel efficiency, the European Commission said yesterday.
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The plan, agreed this week between EU member states and the European Parliament, will ensure the cleaner fuels start to be phased in from the start of 2005 at the latest. Sulphur-free fuels are petrol and diesel with less than 10 parts per million of sulphur. Their availability should allow car makers to introduce more effective catalytic converters and other devices to reduce emissions of pollution, such as particulate matter and nitrogen oxides, the Commission said in a statement. The fuel will also produce less pollution from the EU's existing vehicle fleet, it added.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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