Benzene in Gasoline Regulations — 1
. ( produit oxygéné pur de qualité commerciale ) competition vehicle means a vehicle, boat or marine vessel that is used exclusively for competition. ( véhicule de compétition ) complying gasoline means gasoline that meets the compositional requirements of these Regulations relating to benzene and the benzene emissions number and that has been identified as (a) complying gasoline under subsection 9(1) or (2); or (b) northern winter complying gasoline under subsection 9(1). ( essence conforme ) gasoline means (a) a fuel that is sold or represented as gasoline; or (b) a petroleum distillate, or a mixture of petroleum distillates, oxygenates or additives, that is suitable for use in a spark ignition engine and that has the following characteristics, as determined from the applicable test method listed in the National Standard of Canada standard CAN/CGSB-3.5-2016, Automotive gasoline : (i) a vapour pressure of at least 35 kPa, (ii) an antiknock index of at least 80, (iii) a distillation temperature at which 10% of the fuel has evaporated of not less than 35°C and not greater than 70°C, and (iv) a distillation temperature at which 50% of the fuel has evaporated of not less than 60°C and not greater than 120°C. ( essence ) gasoline-like blendstock means gasoline, other than gasoline dispensed from a refuelling facility, that is intended to be further refined or blended so as to result in complying gasoline and that has been identified as gasoline-like blendstock under section 9. ( composé de base de type essence automobile ) grade means the differentiation of gasoline by a minimum antiknock index. ( qualité ) highway means a common or public road, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, bridge or viaduct, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles, and includes areas between their lateral property lines. ( voie publique ) import means to import gasoline into Canada, except gasoline that is imported in the fuel tank of a conveyance and that is for the use of the conveyance’s engine. ( importation ) manufacturer means a person who owns, leases, operates, controls, supervises or manages a refinery. ( fabricant ) model parameters means (a) the concentration of oxygen as a percentage of the gasoline by weight; (b) the concentration of sulphur in mg/kg; (c) the vapour pressure at 37.8°C (100°F) in kPa; (d) the evaporative fraction at 93.3°C (200°F) as a percentage of the gasoline by volume; (e) the evaporative fraction at 148.9°C (300°F) as a percentage of the gasoline by volume; (f) the concentration of aromatics as a percentage of the gasoline by volume; and (g) the concentration of benzene as a percentage of the gasoline by volume. ( paramètres du modèle ) northern supply area means Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, that part of Quebec that is north of latitude 51°N and that part of Newfoundland and Labrador that is north of latitude 49°N. ( zone d’approvisionnement du Nord ) olefins means unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds that contain one or more double bonds as determined by the method specified in subsection 5(3). ( oléfines ) oxygenate means an oxygen-containing, ashless, organic compound that, when added to gasoline, increases the oxygen content in the gasoline. ( produit oxygéné ) primary supplier means (a) in respect of gasoline that is manufactured at a refinery or blended at a blending facility, a person who (i) owns, leases, operates, controls, supervises or manages the refinery or blending facility, or (ii) owns the gasoline in the blending facility; and (b) in respect of gasoline that is imported, the importer. ( fournisseur principal ) quality control program means a combination of testing, statistical techniques and inter-laboratory comparisons used to verify that a laboratory’s analysis of a sample accurately reflects the composition of the gasoline from which the sample was taken. ( programme de contrôle de la qualité ) refinery means a facility in C