- for a differentiated rate of excise duty for premium-grade unleaded petrol containing a potassium-based additive to improve resistance to valve burn-out (or any other additive of equivalent effect);

The health officials say that this additive has no bearing on health and that it is not a harmful emission (1655 ) I would like to ask the member for Davenport why he would compare in such a way the manganese additives with lead based additives when the government itself has said there is no comparison.

The member has some of his own red herrings, like the red herring of comparing manganese additives to lead based additives.

[Translation] This bill will prohibit the importation of and interprovincial trade in MMT, a manganese-based fuel additive manufactured in the United States.

Whereas the use of lead-based capsules or foil as coverings for closing devices on containers in which spirit drinks are placed on the market should be banned in order to prevent the risk of contamination, in particular by accidental contact with those products, and the risk of environmental pollution by waste comprising lead contained in such capsules or foil; whereas, however, the manufacturers and users of such capsules and foil should be given time to adjust by applying the ban in question from 1 January 1993 only; whereas it is also necessary to allow spirit drinks in bottles fitted before the abovementioned date with lead-based c ...[+++]apsules or foil to be disposed of until stocks are used up;

Whereas petrol engines in all vehicles covered by this Directive should be designed to run on unleaded petrol so as to make it possible to stop the use of lead-based additives in fuels and thus make a decisive contribution to the reduction of environmental pollution by that element;