Per-station fuel prices in Europe: which countries actually allow commercial reuse?
Submitted by
Roman Kotenko
on Mon, 05/10/2026 - 12:53
Topic:
A licensing question for other reusers — I'd be glad to be corrected on any of this.
Per-station fuel prices are published in most of Europe, but in our survey only three national registers allow commercial redistribution today: France, Spain and Italy (about 42,000 priced stations between them). Elsewhere the barrier is legal, not technical:
- Germany — redistributing the market-transparency data requires authorisation as a consumer information service, i.e. an application rather than an API key.
- Austria — the public service is limited by regulation to the five cheapest stations per query, with no bulk endpoint.
- Portugal — the priced portal's terms prohibit commercial use; the openly licensed distribution carries locations without prices.
- Croatia — a request for a machine-readable open-data release was refused.
- Lithuania — strong daily per-station data, marked all rights reserved.
- Cyprus, Slovenia, Denmark — open or newly obligated, and look buildable.
Two questions for anyone who has been down this road:
- Has anyone obtained the German authorisation as a smaller reuser, and roughly what did it involve?
- Is there a lawful redistribution path for Portuguese per-station prices that we have missed?
Since fuel is the largest variable cost in road freight, this seems like a case where the data exists and the reuse terms decide whether it is worth anything.
(Disclosure: I work on NAPSPAN, a European road-data API; the full write-up with sources is on our blog if useful — happy to link it.)