Consumers can fill up their vehicles’ tanks with petrol that contains no harmful lead thanks to a lead prohibition in petrol.  

Why it's important

Those Europeans still enjoying their teenage years may not even remember that once upon a time all of Europe’s petrol contained lead, a product very dangerous for our health and harmful to the environment.

What BEUC did

In a real David vs. Goliath scenario BEUC and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) secured a valuable prohibition on lead in petrol. This means we now have a greener environment and our petrol forecourts are supplying us with safer fuel.