It is a decision that comes after the blockages that occurred this week against soaring gasoline prices. Tank trucks supplying service stations and oil depots will be authorized to circulate on weekends until April 10, according to a decree published this Saturday in the Official Journal.
“The bans on the circulation of vehicles transporting goods of more than 7.5 tonnes (….) are lifted until Sunday April 10, 2022 inclusive, for vehicles transporting hydrocarbon products, with the exception of butane, propane and gases for industrial use”, indicates the decree.
According to this decree, the supply of stations is a “strategic and urgent nature for the national economy of the supply of distribution points and users of hydrocarbon products affected by this situation and the consequences likely to result from a shortage of these products. »
Humanitarian aid in Ukraine
The shutdown thus allows “supply between oil depots as well as from oil depots to distribution points and end customers”. The empty return of the vehicles concerned is also authorized for these days when the ban on national territory is lifted.
On the other hand, another decree published on Saturday in the Official Journal extends until June 19 included the authorization for weekend circulation of heavy goods vehicles transporting humanitarian aid for Ukraine. At the beginning of March, this authorization was first announced for the weekends of March 5-6 and 12-13.
It concerns humanitarian convoys of goods destined for Ukraine or neighboring countries, with the exception of Russia and Belarus, as well as vehicles traveling “to the places where the said goods are grouped located on national territory”.