In force since Apr 8, 2025
Fuel self-service nationwide
Decreto 46/2025 + Resolution (SE) 147/2025
in forceNATIONAL
Market deregulation
Decreto 46/2025 lifts the ban on drivers pumping their own fuel and allows above-ground tanks and mobile stations. Adopting it is optional.
The other rules on this subject40
Mega-DNU 70/2023: repeals the Rentals, Shelves and Supply lawsDecreto 70/2023 (DNU-2023-70-APN-PTE)in force
The IGJ digitizes companies' financial statementsIGJ General Res. 9/2026 (RESOG-2026-9-APN-IGJ#MJ), Official Gazette Jul 2, 2026in force
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
Self-service (self-dispensing) of liquid fuels is authorized nationwide as an optional modality, at the retailer's choice, total or partial. Decreto 46/2025 (art. 2) removed from the 1983 safety code the prohibition on non-station personnel operating the pumps, and also authorized above-ground storage tanks, mobile service stations and relaxed the minimum dimensions of the installations. Resolution (SE) 147/2025 regulated the authorization procedure, the safety conditions and the audit certificate, defining the modalities (exclusive, combined simultaneous and alternating). The full, simplified authorization is in force since April 2025; between January and April 2025 it operated transitionally with case-by-case authorization before the Secretariat. verif Jan 28, 2025 ↗
In force
Decreto 46/2025 published in the Official Gazette on 01/29/2025 (transitional operation). Full and simplified authorization since Resolution (SE) 147/2025, published in the Official Gazette on 04/08/2025. verif Apr 8, 2025 ↗
Who it applies to
Liquid-fuel retailers and service stations nationwide (adoption is optional); fuel retail chains, dispensing-point operators and pump suppliers. It also affects sector workers (pump attendants) and final consumers. verif Jan 28, 2025 ↗
The norm
Decreto 46/2025 (DECTO-2025-46-APN-PTE), signed on Jan 28, 2025 by Milei, Francos and Caputo, authorizes self-service fuelling and delegates the rulemaking to the Secretaría de Energía (60-day deadline); implemented by Resolución 147/2025 of the Secretaría de Energía of the Ministry of Economy (RESOL-2025-147-APN-SE#MEC), signed on Apr 3, 2025 by María Carmen Tettamanti. verif Jan 28, 2025 ↗
Our reading
More management freedom for the station: self-service is optional and leaves the retailer to decide how to operate (R4, deregulation). It enables 24 hours, lowers operating costs and opens room for lower prices for the consumer, in line with a more competitive fuel market. What would break it: union resistance in the sector or provincial/municipal safety rules that limit adoption in practice. thesis
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Where it lands, province by province3
Neuquén Decreto 46/2025 does more than allow self-service: it also legalises above-ground storage tanks, mobile service stations and flexible minimum dimensions. That is fuel supply infrastructure at the wellsite, exactly where the basin needs it — 37 drilling rigs, 13 frac spreads and a sand fleet currently supplied far from the nearest pump. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
Río Negro Fuel was the third-largest local purchase category in the Punta Colorada package in Q1-2026. The demand is a fleet working at night on empty roads, and the pumps sit in small towns where staffing an attendant per shift does not pay. Optional self-service is what makes opening 24 hours viable in Sierra Grande, Valcheta or San Antonio Oeste. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
Catamarca Decreto 46/2025 does more than allow self-service: it authorizes above-ground storage tanks, mobile service stations and flexible minimum dimensions for installations. In Catamarca the 345 kV line and the pipeline to the puna are agreed and not a meter has been built, so the ceiling on the salt flat's works is diesel, in a district of 28,108 km² with 2,022 inhabitants. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
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