“The quality of fuel produced by the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS) at the Pancevo Oil Refinery is fully compliant with the obligations arising from the Energy Community Directive on fuel quality,” it is said for the Serbian government’s Ministry of Mining and Energy, commenting the statement of Janez Kopac, Director of the Secretariat of the Energy Community of Southeast Europe, delivered at an online meeting with members of the Parliamentary Committee (Montenegro) for Economy, transmitted by Pobjeda (February 10, 2021)
Regarding oil derivatives, Kopac said: “The legal regulation in the field of liquid fuels that is valid in the Energy Community is the Directive on fuel quality, and I have to be very positive there. Montenegro is the only member of the Energy Community that has transposed and implemented all parts of that directive. ”
In Serbia, oil derivatives are produced by NIS in the refinery in Pancevo, and at the gas stations of this company and gas stations that are under the European brands OMV, MOL, Lukoil, EKO Serbia (subsidiary Helenik Petrol) and Petrol, as well as private, domestic oil companies Liquid fuels produced in Serbia are also supplied by derivatives imported from refineries in the surrounding countries, members of the European Union, which operate according to EU standards.
“Fuel quality in Serbia is fully compliant with the provisions of the Fuel Quality Directive, as well as the fuel quality monitoring procedure, which has been implemented since 2015,” the Serbian Ministry of Mining and Energy said in response to these accusations: “The Republic of Serbia is largely transposed the provisions of this Directive into national law. The Fuel Quality Directive covers a wider area than quality itself, such as the obligation to place biofuels on the market, which we also successfully transposed into Serbian legislation in 2019, with delayed implementation from 1 January 2022.”
The Ministry of Energy specifies that “the only remaining obligation is to connect this directive with the new directive on renewable energy sources – in the sense of the obligation of fuel suppliers to have appropriate savings in gas emissions.” And that will be resolved after the adoption of the new Law on Renewable Energy Sources (the draft of which is in the process of public debate) and its bylaws, as well as the harmonization of the work of our ministry and the ministry of competent environmental issues,” Politika reports.
