More than 20% of violations of fuel quality requirements were recorded in 18 regions of the country. Among them are Crimea, Sevastopol, Chechnya, Dagestan, Khabarovsk Territory, Sakhalin, Vladimir, Kostroma, Ryazan Regions.
In most regions, the proportion of violations amounted to less than 5%, including Krasnoyarsk Territory, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk Regions, Karachay-Cherkessia, Ingushetia, Rostov Oblast, Perm Territory, and Kamchatka Territory.
As the RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, at the Moscow and Moscow Region gas stations the agency in 2019 did not find violations of fuel quality.
It is clarified that the map of the country's fuel quality, presented on November 20 as part of a public hearing in the Vladimir region, will be published on the Rosstandart website with an update twice a year.
Earlier, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia reported that the actual underfilling of fuel at Russian gas stations turned out to be two to three times higher than the norm.
On November 11, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov said that according to the results of inspections of gas stations in the country, underfilling of fuel was found in 20% of cases.
Autoexpert Roman Gulyaev in an interview with URA.RU gave recommendations on how to act in case of underfilling of fuel at a gas station.