• Policy

        • Belgium

        • 2023

        Law 2023/48506 on the reserves of compulsory stocks of oil and petroleum products

        The Law aims at transcribing the EU directive 2009/119 and lays out a specific legal framework concerning the protection of Belgium’s energy supply by stockholding oil and other petroleum products. Mandatory stocks are held and managed by ASEVA, a public agency with the federal State as sole shareholder.

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        • Chile

        • 1979

        Decree establishing framework for fuel production, import, export and refining

        The Decree mandates that oil-importing companies maintain a stockholding obligation equivalent to 25 days of their domestic average sales over the previous six months. This regulation ensures energy security by requiring companies to hold sufficient reserves to mitigate supply disruptions.

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        • Albania

        • 2018

        Law on the Establishment, Maintenance, and Management of Minimum-Security Stocks of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products

        The Law on the Establishment, Maintenance, and Management of Minimum-Security Stocks of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products sets emergency reserves of at least 90 days of daily net imports, maintained by the National Agency.

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        • Germany

        • 2006

        Energy Taxes: Coal, Biodiesel, Natural Gas

        In August 2006, the mineral oil tax law in Germany was replaced the currently valid energy duty act. The energy duty act implements the European Energy Taxation Directive as national law. The taxation of hard coal, lignite and coke used for heating purposes was introduced. Taxes on natural gas are only collected once the gas has been delivered to the customer. The biofuels benefit was converted to regulatory support from 2007 onwards. As a substitute for the tax exemption for biofuels, the Federal Government has introduced the obligation for fuel suppliers to ensure concrete minimum shares of biofuels in the…

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        • Czech Republic

        • 1999

        Act No. 189/1999 on Emergency Oil Stocks

        …189/1999 regulates the method of creating, maintaining and using emergency stocks of oil and oil products, intended to mitigate or overcome emergencies arising from their shortage, procedures for resolving emergencies and the tasks of state administration bodies and bodies of territorial self-government units in this area. The State Material Reserves Administration hold the responsability to create and maintain stocks. The government is authorised to limit the consumption of crude oil and petroleum products by limiting the maximum speed of vehicles, the use of some types or categories of vehicles on specific days or for specific kinds of transport…

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        • Ireland

        • 2012

        SI 541 of 2012 European Union (Oil Reserves) Regs 2012

        The European Oil Reserves Regulations 2012  provide for the transposition into Irish Law of Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 2009 imposing an obligation on Member States to maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products.

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        • European Union

        • 2009

        Directive 2009/119 imposing an obligation on Member States to maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products

        EU Member States shall adopt laws, regulations or administrative provisions to ensure that the total oil stocks maintained at all times within the EU correspond to at least 90 days of average daily net imports or 61 days of average daily inland consumption, whichever of the two quantities is greater.

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        • Germany

        • 2025

        Energy Industry Act - Gas Storage Filling Target Ordinance

        The ordinance lowers national gas storage filling targets to 80% for cavern storages and four southern German pore storages and 45% for all remaining pore storages to be reached by 1 November of each year.

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        • Malta

        • 2012

        Subsidiary Legislation 545.09

        As a Member State of the European Union, Malta maintains a minimum volume of emergency oil stocks corresponding to 90 days of average daily net imports or 61 days of average daily inland consumption, whichever of the two quantities is greater. The Directive also imposes strict requirements concerning the composition and location of the emergency oil stocks, so as to guarantee their availability and accessibility in case of need, among other provisions.

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        • Croatia

        • 2003

        Regulation on mandatory stocks of oil and petroleum products

        This Regulation determines the parties responsible (i.e. importers with net imports of at least 25 tonnes of cruide oil and petroleum the previous year) for ensuring mandatory stocks of oil and oil derivatives, the method of ensuring mandatory stocks of oil and oil derivatives, and the supervision of the storage of mandatory stocks of oil and oil derivatives. Separately, the Law on Strategic Commodity Stocks provides for stockpiling by the government.

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