On Monday 22 October, the European Commission published a Directive (adopted on 19 October) amending Council Directive 2009/119/EC which concerns methods for calculating storage obligations for crude oil and/or petroleum products.
According to the Commission, the objective is to "continue to guarantee the highest level of security of energy supply in Europe".
New rules (technical amendments) to improve in particular the methodology used by Member States to deduct, when calculating the...