Royal Decree regulating the Obligation to Maintain Minimum Security Stocks, the Diversification of the Natural Gas Supply and Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products Corporation

Source: International Energy Agency
Last updated: 21 January 2025

This decree aims at setting strategic reserves of oil and petroleum products, along with the diversification of natural gas supply. It was last amended in 2022. Article 7 states that any operator authorised to wholesale petroleum products and any company that carries out a retail distribution activity of products not purchased from the aforementioned operators must maintain minimum safety stocks of petroleum products at all times. Article 4 states that the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products is also empowered by the Government to maintain minimum stocks.

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