In May 2019 APA reporting carried by Journal du Cameroun said Ethiopia’s parliament approved a law establishing a petroleum and petroleum products regulatory authority.
The new body was meant to separate regulatory oversight from day-to-day commercial and ministry roles as the country tried to organize oil, gas, and fuel-market rules during Abiy Ahmed’s early reform years.
Energy regulation matters for fuel prices, foreign explorers, and safety standards, and the 2019 statute sits beside other files from the same weeks on National Bank foreign-currency rules for oil firms.
Kept as energy governance archive, the petroleum authority law is a dated marker for how federal institutions tried to police a sector that still depended on imports and scarce foreign exchange.
Sources: Journal du Cameroun / APA