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Standards for Vehicles and Filling Stations Come into Force
The State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Patents (SCSMP) adopted the national standard "Operation of vehicles running on compressed natural gas» AZS 858-2015 (EN 13423-2000).
Also adopted were national standard requirements for filling stations of vehicles running on the same fuel.
Both standards (http://goo.gl/Q8jhkd) entered into force on 1 December.
In SCSMP they told Turan the standards had been developed by the Research Institute of Petroleum and Gas of SOCAR on the basis of translations of international standards. 08D
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