חוק משק הדלק (קידום התחרות) (תיקון) (תיקון מס' 3), התשפ"ב-2021Law Fuel Market (Promoting Competition) (Amendment) (Amendment No. 3), 2021 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

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Amendment No. 3 to the Fuel Economy Law (Promotion of Competition) was approved in second and third reading on 14 December 2021. Section 4 of the Fuel Economy Law (Promotion of Competition) was enacted as an amendment to the Law in 1998. The section provides that a fuel company will not enter into a contract for the establishment of a fuel station or an exclusivity contract, if the fuel station is located within a distance of 1 kilometer on an urban road or 10 kilometers on a non-urban road, from another fuel station selling fuel of the same fuel company. These provisions apply, with the necessary changes, also to a fuel station operator if it has the right to operate an additional fuel station located within these distances, but they do not apply to the renewal of an exclusivity contract or to the sale of a fuel station to a fuel company, if prior to the enactment of that section a fuel sale contract was signed between that fuel company and the station operator, and the contract remains valid until the sale. However, the section contains an exception mechanism whereby the Competition Commissioner may approve, by reasoned decision, an arrangement deviating from the conditions listed in the section, if convinced that the arrangement will not significantly restrict competition in that area, while weighing the possibility of access to the fuel stations from different traffic routes, the number of stations in the area, the sales volume of the fuel stations in the area, the road classification, the nature of the traffic routes, and the willingness of another fuel company to enter into a contract. The Commissioner's decision may be appealed to the Competition Tribunal. The section was enacted as a temporary provision whose validity has already been extended four times, until it expired in July 2021. For about half a year the temporary provision did not apply, until its extension in this amendment, which extends its validity for an additional three years until 31 July 2024.

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