With the idea of safeguarding the environment and guaranteeing operational industrial safety, as well as the integrity of the users, the Safety, Energy and Environment (ASEA) and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) established as a maximum date this June so that gas stations and distributors of liquefied petroleum gas (LP) comply with the National Registry of Petroleum Liquefied Gasoline and Gas Facilities (Renagas).
It is a Mechanism of regularization of the more than 13,900 service stations that supply automotive fuels and around 4,800 facilities for distribution and sale of LP gas. The Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) was responsible for granting permits to these establishments. Previous, Petróleos Mexicanos and the Ministry of Energy did.
Renagas, like other obligations and controls, is increasingly strict, proof of this is that they have had to expand the deadline for compliance. This June period includes entities had their own time to register such as Mexico City and the Metropolitan Zone, Nuevo León and Jalisco, which means that the registration platform will remain open for the 32 states of the country.
“For the ASEA, the operational and industrial security and the protection of the environment are total priority,” said Armando Ocampo Zambrano, head of the ASEA when he announced the additional deadline for the obligors to comply and thus avoid extraordinary inspections and fines since according to the official until the end of May 4 thousand gas stations and 3,700 are in some degree of breach.
On March 7 of the current year, the Renagas Agreement for those who have service stations for the sale and distribution of liquefied petroleum gas, as well as service stations for the sale to the public of gasoline and diesel, was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation. From that month, the registration of the facilities belonging to Mexico City and the Metropolitan Zone was carried out, comprised of the State of Mexico, Morelos, Hidalgo, Puebla and Tlaxcala.
The objective of the organisms that promoted the Renagas has been to regularize the sector, but the imperative need to stop the theft and adulteration of fuels that prevails in the country must also be considered.
Sener, Semarnat and Asea have their facilities in Mexico City and a few kilometers, for example, on the Mexico Querétaro highway, illegal points of gasoline and diesel prevail. In the municipalities conurbed to the city also operate clandestine distributors of LP gas. It is enough that the inspectors, supervisors and regulators take a turn as any user so that they see what we all observe, because in the face of these irregular conditions we ask ourselves again: why do they insist on pressing only those who offer formal jobs and operate in legality?
It is understood that the Renagas seeks to ensure safe and reliable facilities, as well as mitigate and reduce the impacts to the environment; In addition to reducing and fighting the illicit trade of fuels, but while impunity for those who operate in illegality prevails, regulatory measures will continue to seem excessive and abusive, since there are no conditions of equity.
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