How your business can join the road fuel data scheme
Published 31 August 2023
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Requirements for joining the scheme
To join the road fuel voluntary interim scheme, your daily fuel price updates should be:
- available in a consistent, machine-readable JSON format
- available for free
- available without any restrictions
More detailed information is available in the technical specification (see Appendix).
Accuracy monitoring
It’s important that fuel price updates are accurate.
Retailers and information providers are responsible for making sure the fuel prices they display are correct.
The CMA will not monitor third party apps and information providers.
The interim scheme
The interim scheme is open to all fuel retailers.
It’s up to individual retailers to decide where they host their fuel price data.
How to upload your fuel price data
Retailers should compile and upload their fuel price data before midday each day. Fuel price data can be uploaded more than once a day to reflect the most recent prices. The prices should always be current prices, rather than future prices.
When uploading fuel price data, the “brand” field should list the brand name of the fuel that is supplied to, and sold from, the service station, not the owner of the service station.
What to do if a store is closed permanently, or temporarily
Where forecourts or stores are closed, either permanently or temporarily (for example, for a refurbishment), you should not include that store in the price data. The current scheme does not have a specific field for this.
Contact
Contact the team at RoadFuel.Monitoring@cma.gov.uk if you work for or represent a fuel retailer and need additional support, or have questions about how to join the scheme.
Anybody can tell the CMA about a consumer or market issue either online, by phone or by email.