G/TBT/N/DEU/19  
31 July 2023 
(23-5192) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  GERMANY  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer 
Protection, Division C I 6,  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comment s 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer 
Protection, Division C I 6,  
D-53048 Bonn, Germany,  
Tel.: +49 -22899 305 - 2470/2477, Fax: +49 -22899 305 3974,  
E-Mail: CI6@bmuv.bund.de , http://www.bmuv.de  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  KN-Code: 
2710 12 41, KN -Code: 2710 12 45, KN -Code:  2710 12 49, KN -Code: 2710 12 50, KN 
Code: 2710 20 11, KN -Code: 2710 20 16, KN -Code: 2710 19 43, KN -Code: 2710 19 46, 
KN-Code: 2710 19 47, KN -Code: 3826 00 10, KN -Code: 3826 00 90, KN -Code 22 07, KN -
Code 2711 11 00, KN -Codes: 2711 12 11 – 2711 19 00, KN Co de: 2711 21 00, KN -Code 
2711 29 00, KN Code 2804 10 00, HS: 1507 – 1518, KN Codes: 2710 19 62 – 2710 19 
67.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Second 
Ordinance Amending the Ordinance on the Quality and Labelling of Fuels;  (33 page(s), in 
German)  
6. Description of content:  The Ordinance on the Quality and Labelling of Fuels (10th 
BImSchV), this ordinance sets - in respect of road vehicles, non -road mobile machinery 
(including inland waterway vessels when not at sea), agric ultural and forestry tractors, 
and recreational craft when not at sea - technical specifications for fuels to be used with 
positive ignition and compression -ignition engines and labelling requirements for fuels. 
The ordinance applies especially to petrol, diesel fuels, gas oil, biodiesel, ethanol fuel, 
liquid petroleum gas, natural or bio gas as fuel, vegetable oil fuel, hydrogen and fuel oil.  
Quality requirements for automotive B10 diesel and paraffinic diesel XTL have been 
implemented in the ordinance.  
The ordinance will specify the labelling of fuels according to the relevant European 
standard.  G/TBT/N/DEU/19  
 
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  The quality requirements for transport fuels are updated to the latest state of the art by 
citing the latest version of DIN or CEN standards in the Ordinance on th e Quality and 
Labelling of Fuels.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The draft ordinance of the 10th BImSchV  aims to implement the 
requirements of the DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 
amending Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive 
98/70/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the promotion of 
energy from renewable sources, and repealing Council Directive (EU) 2015/652. In 
addition, the draft ordinance of the 10th BImSchV is adapted to the REGULATION (EU ) 
OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the deployment of alternative 
fuels infrastructure and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU.  
Furthermore the quality requirements for transport fuels are updated to the latest state 
of the art by citing the late st version of DIN or CEN standards in the Ordinance on the 
Quality and Labelling of Fuels.  
8. Relevant documents:   
Zehnte Verordnung zur Durchführung des Bundes -Immissionsschutzgesetzes 
(Verordnung über die Beschaffenheit und die Auszeichnung der Qualität en von Kraft - und 
Brennstoffen - 10. BImSchV)  
• DIN EN 228, Version August 2017  
• DIN EN 590, Version May 2022  
• DIN EN 16734, Version September 2022  
• DIN EN 15940, Version July 2023  
• DIN EN 14214, Version May 2019  
• DIN EN 15293, Version October 2018  
• DIN EN 589, Version April 2022  
• DIN EN 16723 -2, Version October 2017  
• DIN 51605, Version November 2020  
• DIN 51623, Version November 2020  
• DIN EN 17124, Version December 2022  
• DIN EN 14274, Version May 2013  
• DIN EN ISO 3170, Version June 2004  
• DIN EN ISO 3171, Version No vember 2000  
• DIN EN ISO 4257, Version March 2002  
• DIN ISO 21087, Version March 2022  
• DVGW Arbeitsblatt G 264, Version February 2019  
• DIN EN 12662, Version July 2008  
• DIN EN ISO 8754, Version December 2003  
• DIN EN ISO 14596, Version December 2007  
• DIN EN ISO 20846 , Version December 2019  
• DIN EN ISO 20884, Version January 2022  
• DIN EN ISO 13032, Version June 2012  
• DIN 51400 -3, Version June 2001  G/TBT/N/DEU/19  
 
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  • DIN EN ISO 3104, Version January 2021  
• DIN 51562 -1, Version January 1999  
• DIN 51366, Version December 2013  
• DIN EN ISO 3405, Version September 2019  
• DIN EN ISO 3924, Version December 2019  
• DIN 51444, Version October 2020  
• DIN EN 17186, Version June 2019  
• DIN EN ISO 3675, Version November 1999  
• EN ISO 12185, Version November 1997 and  
• DIN 51757, Version January 2011.  
Some relevant docu ments have already been notified in the context of G/TBT/N/DEU/17, 
G/TBT/N/DEU/7, G/TBT/N/DEU/12 or G/TBT/N/DEU/12/Rev.1  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 November 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force:  The day after promulgation, however not earlier 
than six months after the entry into force of REGULATION (EU) OF THE EUROPEAN 
PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure 
and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer 
Protection  
Division C I 6, Robert - Schuman -Platz 3, POB 120629, 53048 Bonn, Germany  
Tel.: +49 2289 9305 2470 or 2477,  
e-mail: CI6@bmuv.bund.de ; 
website: www.bmuv.bund.de  
And for referenced standards:  
Deutsches Patent - und Markenamt,  
Zweibrückenstraße 12,  
80331 München, Germany,  
Tel: +49 89 2195 -1000,  
e-mail: info@dpma.de , 
website: http://www.dpma.de/