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Per-station fuel prices in Europe: which countries actually allow commercial reuse?

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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:

  1. Has anyone obtained the German authorisation as a smaller reuser, and roughly what did it involve?
  2. 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.)