{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-119/annex-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-119/annex-III.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/119",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 2009 imposing an obligation on Member States to maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-119",
  "path": "annex/III",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "METHODS FOR CALCULATING THE LEVEL OF STOCKS HELD",
  "text": "The following methods must be used to calculate stock levels:\nWithout prejudice to the case addressed in Article 4(3), no quantity may be counted as stock more than once.\nCrude oil stocks are reduced by 4 %, which corresponds to the average naphtha yield.\nStocks of naphtha and petroleum products for international marine bunkers are not included.\nOther petroleum products are included in the stock count using one of the two methods set out below. Member States must continue to use the method they have chosen throughout the whole calendar year in question.\nMember States may:\n(a) include all other stocks of the petroleum products identified in Chapter 3.4 of Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 and calculate the crude oil equivalent by multiplying the quantities by a factor of 1,065; or\n(b) include stocks of only the following products: motor gasoline, aviation gasoline, gasoline-type jet fuel (naphtha-type jet fuel or JP4), kerosene-type jet fuel, other kerosene, gas/diesel oil (distillate fuel oil) and fuel oil (high sulphur content and low sulphur content) and calculate the crude oil equivalent by multiplying the quantities by a factor of 1,2.\nThe calculation may include quantities held:\nin refinery tanks,\nin bulk terminals,\nin pipeline tankage,\nin barges,\nin intercoastal tankers,\nin oil tankers in port,\nin inland ship bunkers,\nin storage tank bottoms,\nas working stocks,\nby large consumers as required by law or otherwise controlled by governments.\nHowever, those quantities except for any held in refinery tanks, in pipeline tankage or in bulk terminals, may not be included when calculating levels of specific stocks where such stocks are calculated separately from emergency stocks.\nThe calculation may never include:\n(a) crude oil not yet produced;\n(b) quantities held:\nin pipelines,\nin rail tank cars,\nin seagoing ships’ bunkers,\nin service stations and retail stores,\nby other consumers,\nin tankers at sea,\nas military stocks.\nWhen calculating their stocks, Member States must reduce the quantities of stocks calculated as set out above by 10 %. That reduction applies to all quantities included in a given calculation.\nHowever, no 10 % reduction is to be applied when calculating the level of specific stocks or the levels of the different categories of specific stocks where those stocks or categories are considered separately from the emergency stocks, particularly with a view to verifying compliance with the minimum levels laid down by Article 9.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1581 of 19 October 2018 amending Council Directive 2009/119/EC as regards the methods for calculating stockholding obligations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/119/annex/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:06.613454+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}