- System
- IEA and EU
- Holding model
- mixed
- Stockholding body
- RARS (Government Agency for Strategic Reserves) creates and manages agency stocks; producers and traders maintain mandatory stocks
- Obligation
- IEA: 90 days of net imports; EU Directive 2009/119/EC: 90 days of net imports or 61 days of consumption, whichever is greater
- Reporting
- monthly
- Latest level
- 7,958 thousand tonnes
- Level date
- 2026-07
- Crude
- 4,460.9
- Products
- 3,496.8
Public stocks are held entirely in Poland at storage company facilities; RARS owns no storage capacity of its own. Confidence note: Model and agency verified for the pre 2025 system; whether a reported 2025 amendment moving the system further toward RARS had fully taken effect rests on secondary legal sources.
Stock history
Poland emergency oil stocks, thousand tonnes (Eurostat nrg_stk_oilm). Source series as published; no unit conversion.
Last recorded action
2026-03-11: release of 7.5 million barrels. Participation in the IEA collective action agreed 11 March 2026 (400 million barrels). Polish contribution of 7.5 million barrels from obligated industry stocks, 6.0 crude and 1.5 products (IEA contributions table). (source)
Level source: Eurostat (dataset nrg_stk_oilm). Record confidence: partial.