Royal Decree 1716/2004 of 23 July, regulating the obligation to maintain minimum stocks of security, diversification of natural gas supply and the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products, as amended by Royal Decree 1766/2007 of 28 December, establishes in its Articles 25 and 26 that, by Order of the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the unit quotas per group of products will be established which, per metric tonne or cubic metre sold or consumed, and to be paid in proportion to the days of strategic stocks, or in their case of minimum security stocks, maintained by CORES, will have to satisfy the Corporation the subjects required to maintain minimum stocks of security of petroleum products, as well as the quotas which, depending on their participation in the market, will have to satisfy annually to the Corporation the subjects required to maintain minimum stocks of safety of liquefied petroleum gases and natural gas, and to diversify the supply of gas natural.

These quotas are intended to finance the costs provided by the Corporation, especially those that generate the constitution, storage and conservation of the strategic stocks of each group of petroleum products, the activities of the Corporation relating to liquefied petroleum gases and natural gas, as well as the cost of the other activities of the Corporation, and also those for the establishment and maintenance of minimum security stocks corresponding to the required subjects referred to in the preceding paragraph.

Received proposal of quotas for 2010, and after being analyzed and studied by the competent Services of the Secretary of State of Energy, this Ministry has had to dispose:

First.-Subjects required to maintain minimum security stocks of petroleum products will pay the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Corporation the following quotas during the year 2010:

(a) Auto and aviation gasolines: EUR 0,0770 per cubic metre sold or consumed, and per day of stock held by the Corporation on behalf of the subject.

(b) Automotive gasoils, other gasoils, aviation kerosene and other kerosene: EUR 0,0784 per cubic metre sold or consumed, and per day of stock held by the Corporation on behalf of the subject.

(c) Fueloils: EUR 0.0653 per metric tonne sold or consumed, and per day of stock held by the Corporation on behalf of the obligated subject.

Second.-The subjects required to maintain minimum security stocks of liquefied petroleum gases, and those required to maintain minimum stocks of natural gas security and to diversify the gas supply The following quotas will be paid to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Corporation for the year 2010:

a) liquefied petroleum gases: EUR 0.07 per metric tonne sold or consumed.

b) Natural gas: EUR 3.42 per gigawatt hour of sales or firm consumption.

Third.-The subjects required to maintain minimum security stocks of liquefied petroleum gases, as referred to in Article 14.6 of Royal Decree 1716/2004, of July 23, will pay the Corporation during the year 2009, for the maintenance of the minimum security stocks that correspond to them, a quota of 0,3381 euros per metric tonne sold or consumed, per day of stock held by the Corporation for the account of the obligated subject.

Fourth. -The bound subjects referred to in the first, second and third paragraphs, shall pay the Corporation the resulting amount in the form, instalments and in accordance with the forms approved by the Order ITC/18/2005, 10 January, by which the quotas of the Corporation for Strategic Petroleum Products for the financial year 2005 are approved, and by Order ITC/1377/2009 of 27 May, amending the quotas of the Corporation of Strategic Reserves of Petroleum Products for the financial year 2009.

Fifth. -The first declaration and payment of the quotas approved in this Order in the first and third paragraphs above, shall correspond to the sales or consumption made in the month of December 2009.

In the case of the required subjects mentioned in the previous section, the first annual summary declaration and payment of the quotas approved in this Order shall correspond to the sales or consumption by them carried out during the year 2010.

Final disposition.

This Order shall produce effects from the day following its publication in the "Official State Gazette" until the publication of the quotas for the year 2011, without prejudice to the adjustments which, at that time, were necessary to practice in the declarations and payment of the quotas.

Madrid, 29 December 2009.-The Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, P.D. (Order ITC/3187/2004, of 4 October), the Secretary of State for Energy, Pedro Marin Uribe.