A local court has ordered the Department of Energy (DoE) to suspend its implementation of a circular requiring oil companies to unbundle or itemize their fuel costs.

In its July 3 ruling, copies of which were released by consumer group Laban Konsyumer Inc. to the media on Friday, Taguig Regional Trial Court Branch 70 said it issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) to the DoE “to cease and desist” from implementing Department Circular DC2019-05-0008, or the Revised Guidelines for the Monitoring of Prices in the Sale of Petroleum Products by the Downstream Oil Industry in the Philippines.