1999/566/EC: Commission Decision of 26 July 1999 implementing Council Decision 1999/280/EC regarding a Community procedure for information and consultation on crude oil supply costs and the consumer prices of petroleum products (notified under document number C(1999) 1701) - (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1999-07-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: consumer price, distribution cost, import, petroleum, petroleum product, supply

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 July 1999

implementing Council Decision 1999/280/EC regarding a Community procedure for information
and consultation on crude oil supply costs and the consumer prices of petroleum products

(notified under document number C(1999) 1701)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(1999/566/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

oil and petroleum products in the Community; whereas,
since those model questionnaires are to be replaced by a
new presentation conforming
definitions
contained in this Decision, it follows that Decision 77/
190/EEC should be repealed,

the

to

Having regard to Council Decision 1999/280/EC regarding a
Community procedure for information and consultation on
crude oil supply costs and the consumer prices of petroleum
products (1), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1) Whereas it

is desirable that Member States should
present the information referred to in Decision 1999/
280/EC in such a way as to give the most representative
picture possible of each Member State’s oil market;

(2) Whereas such information should be published in an

appropriate form;

Article 1

The information to be communicated to the Commission by
the Member States in accordance with Article 1 of Decision
1999/280/EC shall be drawn up in accordance with the defini-
tions set out in the Annex.

(3) Whereas the Member States and the Commission should

consult each other over the information collected;

Article 2

(4) Whereas it

is necessary to standardise the technical
aspects of the information system, whereas the informa-
tion to be communicated should therefore be defined;

In accordance with Article 4 of Decision 1999/280/EC, the
Commission shall publish the weekly and monthly information
communicated by the Member States in a publication to be
known as the ‘Oil Bulletin'.

(5) Whereas Commission Decision 77/190/EEC (2), as last
amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland
laid down model questionnaires through
and Sweden,
which the Member States are required to communicate
to the Commission the information on prices of crude

(1) OJ L 110, 28.4.1999, p. 8.
(2) OJ L 61, 5.3.1977, p. 34.

Article 3

The Member States shall consult each other within a working
the Member States in order to
party of representatives of
exchange views at
intervals on the information
regular
collected and published pursuant to Decision 1999/280/EC.

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Decision 77/190/EEC is hereby repealed.

Article 4

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 July 1999.

For the Commission

Christos PAPOUTSIS

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Definition of information to be transmitted by the Member States to the Commission of the Communities:

1. Monthly crude oil supply cost (cif);

2. Consumer prices of petroleum products inclusive of duties and taxes and net of duties and taxes in force on the 15th

of each month;

3. Prices of petroleum products net of duties and taxes in force each Monday.

Lines 1 and 2 concern the entire total supply in the month concerned.

Definition of the monthly crude oil supply cost (cif)

‘Supply cost' means the cost of crude oil imports, deliveries from other Member States and crude oil produced in the
Member State.

‘Imports' means all crude oil entering the Community for purposes other than transit and intended to cover the needs of a
Member State.

‘Deliveries' means all crude oil entering the territory of a Member State from another Member State for purposes other
than transit and intended to cover the needs of the Member State.

‘Crude oil produced in the Member State' means the oil produced and refined in the Member State concerned, whose
production is more than 15 % of its annual crude oil supply.

Average cif cost means the weighted average monthly cost of the entire crude oil supply. The cif price includes the fob price
(the price actually invoiced at the port of loading), the cost of transport, insurance and certain charges linked to crude oil
transfer operations. The import value of the crude oil produced in a Member State is to be calculated free at port of
discharge or free at frontier, i.e. at the moment when the crude oil falls under the customs jurisdiction of the importing
country.

The average cif cost is to be communicated in dollars by the Member States.

The Member States should forward Table 1 to the Commission within a period of one month from the end of the month
concerned.

The information forwarded will be published by the Commission in the Oil Bulletin in dollars and in euros. The monthly
rate for the euro vis-(cid:133)-vis the dollar will be established in accordance with the official market exchange rate (1).

Member State:

CRUDE OIL SUPPLY COST

1

Period:

Cif cost

Total volume
(1 000 barrels and
1 000 tonnes)

Average cif cost
(per barrel and per tonne)

Remarks

$

Line No

1

2

supply in 1 000 barrels

Total
and in dollars per barrel

supply in 1 000 tonnes

Total
and in dollars per tonne

Definition of consumer prices of petroleum products in force on the 15th of each month

Each of lines 1 to 7 inclusive is for information on the consumer prices of petroleum products for certain categories of
consumer on a particular date.

‘Prices for certain categories of consumer' means:

— Pump prices in the case of fuels for road transport purposes;

(1) Published in the Official Journal of the European Communities, C series.

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— Delivered prices to small consumers, i.e. for deliveries of 2 000 to 5 000 litres in the case of fuel for domestic heating
purposes (heating gas oil); for offtakes of less than 2 000 litres the industrial sector may be taken into consideration;

— Delivered consumer prices for offtakes of less than 2 000 tonnes per month or less than 24 000 tonnes per year in

the case of industrial fuels.

Real prices means the true consumer prices in force on the 15th of each month:

— Average real price for each of the products in lines 1 to 7 inclusive means the price most frequently charged, i.e. the

weighted average of the series of prices inclusive of and net of duties and taxes.

The information forwarded will be published in the Oil Bulletin in national currencies and in euros.

The euro exchange rates taken into consideration will be those established on 31 December 1998 in the case of euro zone
countries; in the case of the other States the rates will be those published on the 15th of the month by the European
Central Bank.

Member State:

CONSUMER PRICES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

2

Period:

in national currency

Line No

Designation of petroleum
products

Unit

Real prices

Inclusive of duties
and taxes

Duties and taxes

Net of duties
and taxes

Motor fuels

Leaded premium petrol

1 000 litres

Euro super 95

Automotive gas oil

LPG

1 000 litres

1 000 litres

1 000 litres

1

2

3

4

Domestic heating fuel

5

Heating gas oil

1 000 litres

Industrial fuels

6

7

Fuel oil — sulphur content ;1 %

Fuel oil — sulphur content @1 %

tonne

tonne

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Definition of prices net of duties and taxes in force each Monday

Member States will communicate to the Commission no later than midday on Tuesday information concerning the prices
of petroleum products net of duties and taxes in force each Monday.

‘Petroleum products' means:

Motor fuels

— premium leaded petrol

— Euro super 95

— automotive gas oil

— LPG

Domestic heating fuel:

— heating gas oil

Industrial fuels:

— fuel oil with a sulphur content over 1 %

— fuel oil with a sulphur content equal to or less than 1 %.

‘Prices for certain categories of consumer' means:

— pump prices per 1 000 litres in the case of fuels for road transport purposes;

— delivered consumer prices per 1 000 litres in the case of fuel for domestic heating purposes (heating gas oil), i.e. for
deliveries of 2 000 to 5 000 litres; for offtakes of less than 2 000 litres the industrial sector may be taken into
consideration;

— delivered consumer prices for offtakes of less than 2 000 tonnes per month or less than 24 000 tonnes per year in the

case of industrial fuels.

The prices net of duties and taxes communicated by the Member States are the prices most frequently charged, based on a
weighted average. In Member States in which large stores cover over 20 % of inland consumption the prices charged by
them will be taken into consideration.

This information will be published by the Commission each week in the Oil Bulletin in national currencies and in euros.
The euro exchange rates taken into consideration will be those established on 31 December 1998 in the case of euro zone
countries; in the case of the other States the rates will be those published each Monday at 2.15 p.m. by the European
Central Bank.

The information concerning the weekly prices net of duties and taxes will not be published if the Commission
departments are closed.

If Monday is a public holiday in a Member State, publication may be postponed until Wednesday at the request of the
Member State.