Recent developments

Current gasoline specifications are defined in Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural (ANP) Resolution No. 807 (2020), which came into force on August 3, 2020. More information about the modifications compared to past specifications can be seen here.

The current ethanol mandate was set in Resolution No. 1 of March 4, 2015, and implemented on March 16, 2015. It defines the following volumes of anhydrous fuel ethanol to be blended into gasoline: 27% v/v. in gasoline regular, and 25% v/v. in gasoline premium.

As of March 10, 2018, suppliers of fuel ethanol and distributors of liquid fuels are required to analyze the methanol content in fuel ethanol. This obligation was established to curb the use of methanol as an ethanol adulterator.

The Complementary Law (CL) No. 19