{"id":19519,"date":"2017-06-23T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basham.com.mx\/Blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2017-06-23T08:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:48:40","slug":"improvements-to-the-mexican-official-standard-nom-016-cre-2016-oil-products-quality-specifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/improvements-to-the-mexican-official-standard-nom-016-cre-2016-oil-products-quality-specifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvements to the Mexican Official Standard NOM-016-CRE-2016 \u201cOil Products Quality Specifications\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Improvements to the Mexican Official Standard NOM-016-CRE-2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cOil Products Quality Specifications\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 15, 2017, the Energy Regulatory Commission (\u201cCRE\u201d) authorized improvements to the Mexican Official Standard NOM-016-CRE-2016 \u201cOil Product Quality Specifications\u201d<br \/>\nThe main purpose of the modifications approved by CRE is to increase competition among the fuel and diesel markets, derived from the opening of the sector to private investment, in which competitors have started importing and offering a variety of gasolines.<br \/>\nSome of the most relevant modifications of the norm, are:<br \/>\na. Option to import gasoline with the quality applicable in United States of America is allowed, which facilitates the entrance of new quality products.<br \/>\nb. Products that enter the country must comply with the specifications required by the Complex model of the Environmental Protection Agency of United States of America.<br \/>\nc. Importation of gasoline with sulfur levels of up to ten parts per million is facilitated.<br \/>\nd. New competitors may add their gasolines in the place that results more convenient, as long as it does not represent any risk no the country\u2019s infrastructure.<br \/>\ne. Increase in the percentage of ethanol in gasolines, from six to ten percent in all of the country is allowed, except for metropolitan zones of the Mexican Valley, Guadalajara and Monterrey.<br \/>\nAs such, modifications to the norm will allow importation of gasolines that currently are commercialized in United States of America, with the quality applicable in such country, eliminating obstacles for new participants in the Mexican market.<br \/>\nThe lawyers of the energy, mining and infrastructure area of our firm are available for any questions or comments on the above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Juan Carlos Serra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">serra@basham.com.mx<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jorge Eduardo Escobedo Monta\u00f1o <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">jescobedo@basham.com.mx<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jorge Garay Lebrija<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">jgaray@basham.com.mx<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mexico City, June 23rd, 2017<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements to the Mexican Official Standard NOM-016-CRE-2016 \u201cOil Products Quality Specifications\u201d On June 15, 2017, the Energy Regulatory Commission (\u201cCRE\u201d) authorized improvements to the Mexican Official Standard NOM-016-CRE-2016 \u201cOil Product Quality Specifications\u201d The main purpose of the modifications approved by CRE is to increase competition among the fuel and diesel markets, derived from the opening [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1266,1264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basham.com.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}