Proposal for a Council Directive repealing Council Directives 68/414/EEC and 98/93/EC imposing an obligation on Member States of the EEC to maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products, and Council Directive 73/238/EEC on measures to mitigate the effects of difficulties in the supply of crude oil and petroleum products
Date: 2002-09-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: approximation of laws, energy consumption, energy supply, minimum stock, natural gas, petroleum, petroleum product, security of supply, single market, storage of hydrocarbons

31.12.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 331 E/279

Proposal for a Council Directive repealing Council Directives 68/414/EEC and 98/93/EC imposing
an obligation on Member States of the EEC to maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or
petroleum products, and Council Directive 73/238/EEC on measures to mitigate the effects of
difficulties in the supply of crude oil and petroleum products

(2002/C 331 E/42)

(Text with EEA relevance)

COM(2002) 488 final — 2002/0221(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 11 September 2002)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Commission has put forward a proposal for a new Directive of the European Parliament and of the
Council concerning the alignment of measures with regard to security of supply for petroleum products.
More specifically, this proposal for a Directive provides for Member States' provisions on oil stocks and
crisis measures to be more closely aligned with each other, and for coordinated action between the
Member States in the event of a supply crisis.

The abovementioned proposal for a Directive is in two parts:

— The first part defines the stockholding obligations and the criteria with which the security stock

systems must comply.

— The second part covers aspects relating to the adoption of measures in a crisis situation, more
especially the institutional mechanism for ensuring a coordinated response from the Member States
in the event of a crisis.

In this situation, existing legislation on this subject is no longer relevant. The aim of this proposal for a
Directive is therefore to repeal some of the texts concerned.

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,

Whereas:

products (1), and in Council Directive 73/238/EEC of 24
July 1973 on measures to mitigate the effects of difficulties
in the supply of crude oil and petroleum products (2).

(4) Those legislative texts are therefore now obsolete,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Council Directive 68/414/EEC and Council Directive 98/93/EC
amending Directive 68/414/EEC are hereby repealed.

(1) Directive . . ./. . ./EC provides for the alignment of measures
with regard to security of supply for petroleum products.

Article 2

(2) More specifically, in order to ensure the proper functioning
the internal market, Directive . . ./. . ./EC brings the
of
provisions of
to
petroleum stocks and crisis measures closer into line with
each other and provides for coordinated action between
Member States in the event of a supply crisis.

States with regard

the Member

(3) It also incorporates,

in a new and coherent text, all the
relevant aspects which were dealt with in particular in
Council Directive 68/414/EEC of 20 December 1968
imposing an obligation on Member States of the EEC to
maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum

Council Directive 73/238/EEC is hereby repealed.

Article 3

in force on the twentieth day
This Directive shall enter
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

(1) OJ L 308, 23.12.1968, p. 14. Directive amended by Council
Directive 98/93/EC of 14 December 1998; OJ L 358, 31.12.1998,
p. 100.

(2) OJ L 228, 16.8.1973, p. 1.