• Policy

        • Lithuania

        • 2002

        Law on State Stocks of Petroleum Products and Oil

        The Law on Stocks includes secondary legislation regarding procedures to respond to an oil supply disruption, and on maintaining oil emergency stocks. The stockholding obligation set on industry is calculated each year, based on Lithuania’s total 90-day net import obligation minus the 30 days of consumption of specific stocks held by the Lithuanian Energy Agency. It was last amended in 2020.

        • Policy

        • Denmark

        • 2023

        Danish Gas Supply Act

        The Act gives the Minister the authority to implement gas emergency measures to handle supply disruptions during a crisis. Specifically, Section 23 a allows the Minister to set rules regarding defining protected customer groups and requiring companies to share relevant information with authorities. Furthermore, Section 15 mandates that concessioned companies and Energinet plan and take measures to ensure gas supply in emergencies, with Energinet handling overall coordination.

        • Policy

        • Bulgaria

        • 2013

        Law on oil and oil products reserves

        This law regulates the creation, storage, renewal, use and restoration of emergency stocks of oil and oil products and target stocks of oil products, as well as introduces the necessary procedures for overcoming a possible serious shortage. The State Agency "State Reserve and Wartime Stocks" and energy enterprises are responsible for creation and mantainance of the stocks.

        • Policy

        • Germany

        • 2023

        Germany's 2nd Amendment to the Building Energy Act (GEG) - phase-out of fossil fuels

        In 2023, German Federal Government approved amendments to the Building Energy Act for new heating systems to use at least 65% renewable energy from 2024 onwards and for fossil fuels to phase out from heating by Jan 2045 in line with its climate-neutrality target.The ban will initially apply to new buildings, existing buildings will still allow a gas system until the deadline for municipalities to submit a heat plan (2026 for large cities and 2028 for towns). New gas boilers will continue to be allowed to be installed, if these boilers are operated with renewable gas, including hydrogen…

        • Policy

        • New Zealand

        • 1981

        Petroleum Demand Restraint Act

        Article 4 of the Petroleum Demand Restraint Act stipulates that the Governor-General may inter alia regulate the use of vehicles, prescribe a scheme for rationing petroleum products and may provide for the setting aside of reserve supplies.

        • Policy

        • European Union

        • 2010

        Regulation No 994/2010 concerning measures to safeguard security of gas supply

        This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas. It mandates EU member states to set a preventive and emergency plan of market and non-market based measures to limit gas demand in case of emergency, along with strenghtened regional cooperation between countries.

        • Policy

        • Germany

        • 2024

        Investment on Critical Raw Minerals

        The German government announced of its plan to invest €1 billion on raw materials to reduce its dependencies on other countries such as China. The investment will go towards raw materials extraction, processing and recycling. The budget, to be valid for 4 years from 2024 onwards, has been approved by the Federal government. However, actual details of the plans have yet to be disclosed. 

        • Policy

        • Islamic Republic of Iran

        • 1987

        Petroleum Act of 1987 as amended

        …Ministry of Oil is responsible for exercising this right on behalf of the Islamic Government, having the power to companies to conduct upstream petroleum operations in the country. The law further establishes the Supreme Committee for Supervision of Petroleum Resources as a supervising authority for such matters, with the following duties:

         


        Investigating and assessing the implementation of policies and plans of the Ministry of Oil, in the process of preserving oil and gas resources, optimising production and maximising the economic value of such resources;


         


        Examination and assessment of text, financial volume, obligations, production amount and other aspects of oil and…

        • Policy

        • Germany

        • 2005

        Energy Industry Act

        The purpose of this Act is to ensure a safe and efficient supply of electricity and gas, and that this supply is increasingly based on renewable energies. The Act was amended in 2022 to include storage restrictions to gas supplier, with minimum filling levels to ensure the security of supply.

        • Policy

        • Germany

        • 2025

        Renewable Energy Directive - National transposition for industry

        …and Climate Protection (BMWK) decided that the RFNBO industrial targets (from the Renewable Energy Directive revision) will not be passed on to individual companies and instead Germany will aim to achieve the binding targets through a combination of subsidy measures targeting the demand side. These could include CCfD, the H2Global and direct subsidies for steel producers (all of which were already in place by the time of this announcement). There is a range of estimates of 0.6-0.9 Mtpa of RFNBO supply needed to satisfy the industry target (see references). Germany said it will recognise the refinery route…

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