In downstream oil & gas, prohibited acts inimical to public interest and national security: a sale, transfer, delivery or filling of petroleum products of a quantity that is actually beyond authorized limits than the quantity indicated or registered on the metering device of container. This refers, among others, to the quantity of petroleum retail outlets or to liquefied petroleum gas in cylinder or to lube oils in packages [Section 3, Batas Pambansa Blg. 33, An Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibited Acts Inimical to the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products, Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for Other Purposes, as amended by Presidential Decree No. 1865, s. 1983, Amending Batas Pambansa Blg. 33, Entitled “An Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibited Acts Inimical to the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products, Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for Other Purposes”, By Including Short-Selling and Adulteration of Petroleum and Petroleum Products and Others Acts in the Definition of Prohibited Acts, Increasing the Penalties Therein, and for Other Purposes]
Note: The term is alternatively referred to as Underdelivery.