The State Reserve and Wartime Stocks Department carried out 236 inspections in just 2 months to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Petroleum and Petroleum Products Reserves Act.

The checks were made to specify the quantities in order to correctly determine the emergency stocks of petroleum and petroleum products that the country must maintain for the period 01.07.2024 - 30.06.2025.

The companies that imported and/or inward shipped oil and petroleum products in 2023 in the territory of the country were checked.

Twenty-two administrative offence certificates were issued to obliged persons who did not submit reports in accordance with the Act.

The number of obliged persons for the period 01.07.2024 - 30.06.2025 is 239 and is less than the number for the period 01.07.2023 - 30.06.2024, which is 262.

The inspections have been carried out throughout the country and are part of the activities of the State Agency for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its statutory functions. The Agency exercises state supervision over the establishment, storage, renewal, use and restoration of stocks of petroleum and petroleum products in order to ensure the supply of liquid fuels in the event of a supply bottleneck or significant supply disruption in the country and in other Member States of the European Union and/or in accordance with a decision of the International Energy Agency on the allocation of stocks which has entered into force.