European Commission — EU sanctions against Russia: energy (oil price cap)
European Commission
Source profile
- Type: Official government / regulator
- Access / format: Official web page (HTML)
- Machine-readable: No — manual read
- Update cadence: unknown
- Used for: sanctions, Russia, energy, oil, price cap, trade
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Source details
How Warconomy uses this source
Official European Commission page on the EU oil price cap. It backs the products caps here: premium-to-crude products at US$100/bbl and discount-to-crude products at US$45/bbl (in effect since 5 February 2023). The seaborne crude cap, originally US$60/bbl (from 5 December 2022) then US$47.6/bbl under the 18th package, was subsequently lowered to US$44.10/bbl from 1 February 2026 under the EU's automatic dynamic mechanism (see source `ec-crude-cap-2026`); the United States continued to apply the US$60 level. Price caps are policy thresholds, not market prices. Manually transcribed into this repo as static fixtures; not fetched at runtime and not real-time. Policy parameters may be revised; this is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.
Citation readiness
Why
- official publisher
- backs a source-linked observation
- deep link to the specific page/series
- manually reviewed
Limitations
- manually maintained static value, not real-time
- irregular/policy cadence; re-verify against the source
- not legal or compliance advice
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Indicators from this source
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| Indicator | Value | As of | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russian refined products price cap (premium-to-crude) | 100 USD/bbllive · source-linked | February 5, 2023 | European Commission | High |
Facts citing this source
EU price caps on seaborne Russian refined products have applied since 5 February 2023, at US$100 per barrel for premium-to-crude products (e.g. diesel, kerosene, gasoline) and US$45 per barrel for discount-to-crude products (e.g. fuel oil, naphtha).
Where this source is used
Review status
Event snapshot is old; review recommended before citing as current context. This source backs 1 live observation; the oldest has an asOf of February 5, 2023, giving a recommended review-by date of August 4, 2023 for its unknown cadence. Review status is a re-check signal, not a correctness claim.
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Version history
This source is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions (v1.37.0–v1.187.0), citing 1 observation and 1 fact. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.
Full record history: records/source--ec-sanctions-energy/data.json.
Relationships & machine-readable
This source backs 1 observation, 1 fact, and appears in 4 provenance records. See the source JSON (includes a source relationship graph), the per-record provenance export, and the source health checklist.
Limitations
- Values referencing this source are manually maintained static fixtures, not real-time and not automatically updated.
- Figures may be revised by the publisher in later releases; review cadence depends on the source.
- Warconomy links to the publisher’s canonical page; it does not reproduce the source in full and is not affiliated with it.