Ministries of Finance, Petroleum, Planning and Supply complete the procedures of activating fuel smart card system.

Drawing up a general scheme to accelerate issuing and distributing smart cards for ...

Ministries of Finance, Petroleum, Planning and Supply complete the procedures of activating fuel smart card system. Drawing up a general scheme to accelerate issuing and distributing smart cards for the registered vehicles all over the country. A time schedule to determine timing of card receipt in each governorate and announcement in media. Calling vehicles’ owners for receiving their smart cards from their affiliate traffic units within a month from the start of distribution in governorates. All fuel stations are obliged to use the electronic system in order to prevent leakage and smuggling cases. As of next April, the system shall be fully completed and petrol stations shall require using fuel smart cards. Port Said, Ismailia, Suez and Damietta have already applied the electronic system. Ministries of Finance, Petroleum, Planning and Supply are completing the enforcement procedures of the decision taken by the economic ministerial committee headed by engineer Ibrahim Mahlab, the Prime Minister, relates to activating fuel smart cards for distributing petroleum products all over the country in order to be fully completed as of the end of next April. Minister of Finance, Hany Kadry Dimian, confirmed that the government considers activating the electronic system for distributing petroleum products and completing its entire phases, as well as all citizens shall be obliged to use their fuel smart cards to prove their fueling from stations. The Prime Minister shall issue ministerial decree adheres petroleum products marketing companies, owners of petrol stations all over the country, to use smart cards in each fuel sale process immediately after finalizing the issuance of fuel smart cards for all registered vehicles in traffic units; the ratio of  40 % of smart cards have already been issued and delivered all over the country ( noting that such cards are valid and shall be used to receive petroleum products, as other smart cards which will be issued within the next four months.) He said that the system management draws up a scheme to complete issuance of smart cards gradually in governorates within the next four months whereas smart cards issuance center has already completed the issuance of all registered vehicles in Port Said, Ismailia, Suez and Damietta and the vehicles’ owners are currently receiving their cards from traffic departments in these governorates where smart cards are actually used in fueling.        As well as smart cards shall be issued and disturbed successively in the rest of governorates according to the distribution plan, time schedules and places for cards delivery shall be announced through the system media campaign. Cards will be delivered within one month as of starting distribution process in governorates using copies of license and ID, from traffic units that work from 8 A.M to 8 P.M. Considering receiving smart cards by citizens, the Ministry’s statement revealed that a resolution issued by the economic ministerial committee on accounting fuel stations according to the amounts of different solar and gas types disbursed without using smart cards at cost price, accordingly these stations shall only allow to fuel vehicles , using smart cards or paying at the cost price. He also said that this measure shall help the government to tighten control on supply of petroleum products amounts in markets and to prevent fuel leakage or being smuggled to people who are not entitled to get the products at these prices. E-Finance, the company applying this project confirmed that activating cards in the governorates’ fuel stations will be gradually in addition to completion of cards delivery and starting collecting data of nonregistered vehicles in traffic units for issuing their cards.  He also requested owners of nonregistered vehicles to accelerate registering their vehicles in traffic, noting that the project management will put a facilitated mechanism for issuing cards for all users of petroleum products (non- registered entities and vehicles in traffic databases i.e. tok tok, loaders, fishing ships, bakeries, water motors , …… etc.) as they will get their fuel needs till issuing their cards. He also said that signing cooperation protocol between Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Interior will allow cards issuance center to use traffic data for issuing cards of such nonregistered vehicles in Egypt to accelerate cards issuance process in order to bridge the gap between citizens’ application requests to get their cards which estimated at 2.5 million request so far and the number of actual registered vehicles in different governorates estimated at 6 million vehicle. He also added that Ministry of Finance lunch a huge media campaign for informing citizens in governorates on the project implementing steps as well as providing  phone numbers for inquiries and dealing with any problem faced by citizens, i.e. forgetting or missing cards , in that case, an  emergency card that exists in the station dedicated for such purposes will be used for facilitating, noting that this card will be used for the next four months till the Prime Minister’s decree entering into force to sell at the cost price of petroleum products for those who  doesn’t use smart cards . Two phone lines for inquiries concerning the project: 19683-19680