A 2.7. What rules were set up for the transportation, marketing and storage of the ethanol used as a fuel?
In July 1987*, the Brazilian government set up rules for the transportation, marketing and storage of fuel ethanol, ordering the National Oil Council (CNP) to measure and inform the National Executive Commission on Alcohol (CENAL, in Portuguese) by the 28th of February of each year of the total demand for the ethanol to be used both as a fuel and a raw material in the ethanol chemistry industry for each crop. It was incumbent upon the IAA to allocate the overall production volumes of ethanol for other purposes, subject to the fulfillment of the condition that the demand for fuel ethanol had to be met. For the ethanol produced for use as a fuel, distributors of oil derivatives and Petrleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) were billed directly by the producers. The CNP would set up the system to apportion and bill ethanol among distributors of oil by-products and Petrobras in view of the supply dynamics of the marketplace. The safety stocks of the fuel ethanol supply system were to correspond
