S.I. No. 557/2019 - European Union (Oil Reserves) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in | ||
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 15th November, 2019. | ||
I, RICHARD BRUTON, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972) and for the purpose of giving further effect to Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 20091 as amended by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1581 of 19 October 20182 , hereby make the following regulations: | ||
1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Oil Reserves) (Amendment) Regulations 2019. | ||
2. These Regulations come into operation on 1 January 2020. | ||
3. In these Regulations - | ||
“Act of 2007” means the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007 (No. 7 of 2007); | ||
“Principal Regulations” means the European Union (Oil Reserves) Regulations 2012 ( S.I. No. 541 of 2012 ). | ||
4. Regulation 2 of Principal Regulations is amended - | ||
(a) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of ‘Council Directive’: | ||
“ ‘Council Directive’ means Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 20091 as amended by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1581 of 19 October 20182 ;”, | ||
and | ||
(b) by the insertion of the following definitions after the definition of “Irish emergency stocks”: | ||
“ ‘oil stocks’ means stocks of the energy products listed in Chapter 3.4 of Annex A to Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008; | ||
‘Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008’ means Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 20083 , as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 147/2013 of 13 February 20134 , Commission Regulation (EU) No. 431/2014 of 24 April 20145 and Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2010 of 9 November 20176 ;”. | ||
5. Section 2 of the Act of 2007 is amended - | ||
(a) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of ‘Council Directive’: | ||
“ ‘Council Directive’ means Council Directive 2009/119/EC of 14 September 20091 , as amended by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1581 of 19 October 20182 ;”, | ||
(b) by the insertion of the following definition after the definition of “oil consumer”: | ||
“ ‘oil stocks’ means stocks of the energy products listed in Chapter 3.4 of Annex A to Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008;”, | ||
and | ||
(c) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of ‘Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008’: | ||
“ ‘Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008’ means Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 20083 , as amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 147/2013 of 13 February 20134 , Commission Regulation (EU) No. 431/2014 of 24 April 20145 and Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2010 of 9 November 20176 ;”. | ||
6. Section 32 of the Act of 2007 is amended - | ||
(a) in subsection (1B), in paragraph (c) by the substitution of “30 June” for “31 March”, | ||
and | ||
(b) in subsection (1C), in paragraph (a) by the substitution of “Chapter 3.4 of Annex A to Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008” for “section 4 of Annex B to Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2088”. | ||
7. The Act of 2007 is amended by the substitution of the following Schedule for Schedule 1: | ||
“SCHEDULE 1 | ||
Section 32 | ||
The crude oil equivalent of imports of petroleum products, as referred to in section 32 shall be calculated using the following method: | ||
1. The sum of net imports of crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL), refinery feedstocks and other hydrocarbons, as defined in Annex A, Chapter 3.4 of Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008, shall be calculated and adjusted to take account of any stock changes. From the resulting figure, one of the following figures shall be deducted for naphtha yield: | ||
4%, | ||
the average naphtha yield, | ||
the net actual naphtha consumption. | ||
2. The sum of the net imports of all other petroleum products, as defined in Annex A, Chapter 3.4 of Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008, excluding naphtha, shall be calculated and adjusted to take account of stock changes and shall be multiplied by a factor of 1.065. | ||
3. The sum of the figures resulting from 1 and 2 represents the crude oil equivalent. | ||
4. International marine bunkers shall not be included in the calculation.”. | ||
8. Schedule 2 to the Act of 2007 is amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph 1: | ||
“1. Inland consumption is the sum of the aggregate “observed gross inland deliveries”, as defined in Section 3.2.2.11 of Annex C to Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008, of the following products only: 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) as defined in Chapter 3.4 of Annex A to Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2008.”. | ||
9. Schedule 3 to the Act of 2007 is amended in paragraph 5 by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (a): | ||
“(a) 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”. | ||
| ||
GIVEN under my Official Seal, | ||
29 October, 2019. | ||
RICHARD BRUTON, | ||
Minister for Communication, Climate Action and Environment. | ||
1 OJ No. L 265, 9.10.2009, p.9 2 OJ No. L 263, 22.10.2018, p. 57 1 OJ No. L 265, 9.10.2009, p.9 2 OJ No. L 263, 22.10.2018, p. 57 3 OJ No. L 304, 14.11.2008, p 1 4 OJ No. L 50, 22.02.2013, p. 1 5 OJ No. L 131, 1.05.2014, p. 1 6 OJ No. L 292, 10.11.2017, p. 3 1 OJ No. L 265, 9.10.2009, p.9 2 OJ No. L 263,22.10.2018, p. 57 3 OJ No. L 304, 14.11.2008, p 1 4 OJ No. L 50, 22.02.2013, p. 1 |
