Act No. 189/1999 on Emergency Oil Stocks

Country / jurisdiction: Czech Republic · Year: 1999 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

The Act No. 189/1999 regulates the method of creating, maintaining and using emergency stocks of oil and oil products, intended to mitigate or overcome emergencies arising from their shortage, procedures for resolving emergencies and the tasks of state administration bodies and bodies of territorial self-government units in this area. The State Material Reserves Administration hold the responsability to create and maintain stocks.

The government is authorised to limit the consumption of crude oil and petroleum products by limiting the maximum speed of vehicles, the use of some types or categories of vehicles on specific days or for specific kinds of transport (article 5(1)(b) ES), by limiting or prohibiting the use of some groups of motor vehicles with even or odd final license plate numbers on certain days, by limiting the use of railway vehicles, limiting aviation related activities, limiting or banning the sale of fuel, regulate the import of crude oil or petroleum products, by introducing a rationing system  or by limiting or banning the export of oil or petroleum products.

The Act was last amended in 2021.

Official source: https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1999-189