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Emergency Stocks
The European Commission (EC) coordinates the maintenance of emergency stocks of crude oil and petroleum products. In doing so it pursues five major objectives:
- Increase the security of supply for crude oil and petroleum products by establishing and maintaining minimum stocks
- Promote solidarity between the Member States in the event of an energy crisis by putting in place predefined measures and mechanisms which will guarantee coordinated action
- Manage security of supplies by providing for suitable mechanisms to deal with physical disruption of energy supplies
- Promote market stability, in consultation with producer countries, by planning possible responses to situations where the markets anticipate a physical disruption of supplies in order to restore the proper functioning of the market
- Increase transparency in oil market
Related documents
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Oil Stock position
Member States with a 90-day obligation (update January 2013)
[53 KB] Member States with a transitional period (update January 2013)
[23 KB] Bilateral intergovernmental agreements on oil stocks
[24 KB] Monthly data (starting January 2008)
Monthly data (starting January 2008)
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Maps on compliance with emergency stock obligations
Position at end October/November 2011
Category I : Motor spirit and aviation fuel of gasoline type
[2 MB] Category II : Gasoil, diesel, kerosene and jet-fuel
[2 MB] Category III : Fuel oils
[2 MB] All Categories
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Ensuring secure oil supply: a stronger system of emergency oil stocks [MEMO/08/697]All available translations.
