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 Article 25 and Article 26, which, by Order of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, will establish the unit quotas per group of products which, per metric ton or cubic meter sold or consumed, will have to satisfy the Corporation the subjects required to maintain minimum safety stock of petroleum products, as well as the quotas which, depending on their participation in the market, will have to satisfy the Corporation annually the subjects required to maintain minimum safety stocks of liquefied petroleum gases and gas natural gas supply, and to diversify the supply of natural gas. Article 26 also states that, by Order of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the unit quota per metric tonne or cubic meter sold or consumed, calculated for each product group or liquefied gas, shall be established. of oil, which shall be met by the subjects referred to in Article 25.3 of the Royal Decree. The purpose of these quotas is 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 of constitution and maintenance of the minimum security stocks corresponding to the subject to which it refers in the preceding paragraph. Received a proposal for quotas for 2006, and after being analyzed and studied by the competent services of the General Secretariat of Energy, this Ministry has had to dispose:

First. -According to the provisions of Article 27 of Royal Decree 1716/2004, of July 23, within the first twenty days of each month the obligated subjects defined in Article 7 will forward to the Corporation the information on sales or consumption of the preceding calendar month, determined in accordance with the provisions of the Royal Decree, using the model declaration in Annex 1.

Simultaneously to that declaration and without the need for a requirement, those persons obliged, including those who are in the case of Article 25.3 of the Royal Decree and who have complied with the formalities in this Article established, shall enter in favor of the Corporation, in the form and through the means it is determined, the amount that will result from applying the quotas fixed for each calendar year by Ministerial Order, to the tons/cubic meters sold or consumed in the previous month. Second. -According to the provisions of Article 27 of Royal Decree 1716/2004 of 23 July, within the first twenty days of each month the required subjects defined in Article 8 shall forward to the Corporation the information on sales or the previous calendar month, determined in accordance with the provisions of the Royal Decree, as part of the monthly information years whose models the General Directorate of Energy Policy and Mines of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. During the first 20 days of January of the calendar year following the previous monthly information, those obliged persons shall submit a declaration for the purposes of self-validation and entry of the corresponding quotas. summary of the previous monthly information, in accordance with the model declaration in Annex 2. Simultaneously to this annual statement-summary, and without the need for prior requirement, the required subjects defined in Article 8 of the Royal Decree 1716/2004 of 23 July, including those of which they had completed the procedure laid down in Article 25.3 of the said Royal Decree, shall, in the form and through the means determined by it, be entered in the form and through the means determined by it, the amount resulting from the application of the corresponding quota fixed for each Natural year by Ministerial Order to sales or consumption during the same calendar year. Third. -According to the provisions of Article 27 of Royal Decree 1716/2004 of 23 July, within the first twenty days of each month the required subjects defined in Article 15 shall forward to the Corporation the information on sales or Monthly consumption, determined in accordance with the provisions of the Royal Decree, as part of the monthly information years whose models the General Directorate of Energy Policy and Mines of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. During the month of April of the calendar year following which the previous monthly information relates, those obliged subjects shall, for the purposes of self-validation and the entry of the corresponding quotas, submit a summary declaration of the previous monthly information, in accordance with the model declaration in Annex 3. At the same time as the annual statement-summary, and without the need for a prior requirement, those obligated subjects must enter in favor of the Corporation, in the form and through the means that it determines, the amount that is to be applied the quotas fixed for each calendar year by Ministerial Order for sales or consumption during the same calendar year. Fourth.-The subjects required to maintain minimum safety stocks of petroleum products, including liquefied petroleum gases, required to maintain minimum stocks of natural gas security and to diversify supply. The following quotas will be paid to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Corporation for the year 2006:

a) Auto and aviation gasolines: 2.45 euros/m3.

b) Automotive gasoils, other gas oils, aviation kerosene and other kerosene: 2.49 euros/m3. c) Fueloleos: 2.20 euros/Tm. (d) Liquefied Petroleum Gases (LPG ' s): EUR 0,05/Tm. e) Natural Gas: 2.81 euros/GWh.

Fifth.-The subjects required to maintain minimum security stocks referred to in Article 25.3 of Royal Decree 1716/2004 of July 23, will pay the Corporation during the year 2006, the following quotas for the maintenance of the minimum safety stocks, including the strategic ones, which correspond to them according to their sales or consumption:

a) Auto and aviation gasolines: 6.40 euros/m3.

b) Automotive gasoils, other gas oils, aviation kerosene and other kerosene: 6.51 euros/m3. (c) Fueloils: EUR 5.76/Tm. d) liquefied petroleum gases (LPG ' s): 7.64 euros/Tm.

Sixth. -The first declaration and payment of the quotas approved in this Order, shall correspond to the sales or consumption made in the month of December 2005, in the case of the required subjects defined in Article 7 of the Royal Decree Decree 1716/2004 of 23 July.

In the case of the required subjects defined in Articles 8 and 15 of the aforementioned Royal Decree, 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 2006.

Additional disposition.

The bound subjects defined in Articles 7, 8 and 15 of Royal Decree 1716/2004 of 23 July, shall be applicable to the provisions relating to procedures, information and inspection as defined in Order ITC/3283/2005, (a) of 11 October, laying down rules concerning the duties of information of the persons required to maintain minimum stocks of petroleum products, including liquefied petroleum gases, and natural gas, as well as to the inspection powers of the strategic product reserve corporation oil.

Final disposition.

This Order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette", the date until which the previously existing quotas will continue to apply.

Madrid, 4 January 2006. -Minister, P. D. (Order ITC/3187/2004, October 4, B.O.E. of 6 October), the Secretary General of Energy, Antonio Joaquín Fernández Segura.

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