The new technical regulation of infrastructure and facilities of gaseous fuels is intended to establish the technical conditions and guarantees that must meet the infrastructure and facilities in distribution, transportation and use of gaseous fuels and gas, with the aim of maintaining the security of persons and property.

The present draft royal decree to substitute the current Royal Decree 919/2006 of 28 july, which approves the technical regulation of distribution and use of gaseous fuels and its follow-up technical instructionsICG01: 11.

With this royal decree the aim is to provide an update of the technical regulations suited to the needs, potential and existing technical solutions to the facilities of gaseous fuels, based on the evolution of the technique and experience that has been building up the implementation of the current regulation, such as the need for the inclusion of new gaseous fuels. Similarly it is necessary to carry out a general review of the rules of procedure to clarify certain provisions of the content and thus resolve problems of implementation

It also included in the area of alternative facilities whose law has not evolved over time, as the case of stockpiling, transfer and filling of packaging liquid petroleum or the case of equipment of gaseous fuels by channelling maximum pressure design over 16bar. In this way, is intended to avoid dispersal policy, and the safety of installations of distribution and transportation of fuel gas under the same rules of procedure of the security council.

Furthermore, this draft royal decree also updated diverse national legislation, in the case in particular of the royal Decree No. 639/2016, of 9 december, which establishes a framework of measures for the implementation of infrastructure for alternative fuels, with the royal decree 552/2019, of 27 september, which approved the regulations on safety in storage facilities and their follow-up technical instructions, the royal decree 809/2021, of 21 september, approving the regulations of pressure equipment and its follow-up technical instructions and the Royal Decree 337/2014, of 9 may, by approving the regulations on technical conditions and guarantees of safety high voltage power and its Follow-Up Technical InstructionsITC-TAR01-23.

Furthermore, this royal decree also derogates from the following provisions: royal decree 919/2006 of 28 july, which approves the technical regulation of distribution and use of gaseous fuels and its follow-up technical instructionsICG01-11, the order of 1 december 1964 on certain safety standards for the construction, installation and operation of the ‘ Plants of fillings and transfer of former united nations interns and fellows', the first additional provision of royal decree no. 984/2015, 30 october, which regulates the gas market and access of third parties to the facilities of the natural gas, except paragraph 7, the order of 18 november 1974 on the rules of procedure of networks and Undertaken of gaseous fuels and on what contradicts or oppose the provisions of this royal decree. We also remain null provisions of equal or inferior rank which may contradict this royal decree.

STRUCTURE OF THE ROYAL DECREE

The royal decree comprises a preamble, a single article, six additional provisions, six transitional provisions, a provision repeal and seven final provisions.

The rules of procedure, which intends to adopt by the above-mentioned article Only, consists in turn thirty articles and thirteen Complementary Technical Instructions (ITC).

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