In 2007, Phillips 66 joined 40 attorneys general in creating the Assurance of Voluntary Compliance to help prevent the sales of tobacco products to minors. We no longer mail hard copies of the form. Rather, we ask that you send a copy of the letter below to your sites via email or US mail.  
 
Action Requested by April 1, 2025: 

1. Provide a copy of the Tobacco Assurance of Voluntary Compliance letter  to each of your branded locations.  

2. Confirm you’ve done so using the Tobacco Assurance – Manage Compliance page located under the Performance page on Gateway. 

Thank you for your participation in protecting the health of our youth.  
 
BARS® Program 
We also want to highlight the BARS® Program, as we think it may be useful for you. It is an independent testing service that performs at least one compliance check every six (6) months that evaluates how well your training and other safeguards are working. As we advised you last year, PSX’s branded customers and trademark licensees can utilize third party testing service to perform compliance checks at branded retail outlets that they supply, own and/or operate. If you are interested in using the testing service, visit The BARS Program website. 
 
Other prevention efforts include: 

• Adopting standards for hiring and training employees regarding sale of tobacco products, including instructing employees on the compelling health reasons underlying restrictions on youth to tobacco. 

• Instructing store employees to check I.D. for all tobacco customers who appear to be under 35, and accepting only valid, government-issued photo I.D. 

• Using security videotapes of tobacco sales transactions to monitor compliance, and posting signs warning would-be underage purchasers that their attempt to purchase may be caught on tape.  

• Programming cash registers to aid store employees, when possible (for example, by locking when a tobacco product is scanned and prompting the store employee to ask for I.D.). 

• Eliminating self-service tobacco displays, including vending machines, and prohibiting distribution of free tobacco products on store property.  

• Maintaining a policy against increasing youth demand for tobacco through in-store advertising, and limiting such advertising to brand names, logos, other trademarks and pricing.  

• Designating an employee who will be responsible for addressing compliance with underage tobacco sale laws, and who will monitor implementation of policies and procedures as well as review reports of violations of laws concerning the sale of tobacco products to minors. 

Establishing your own compliance check & tobacco compliance program 
If you have not done so already, we recommend that you establish your own compliance check and tobacco compliance program.  
 
As you know, your supply agreement with Phillips 66 contains provisions stating that you will strictly comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, orders and ordinances relating to your business, including but not limited to compliance with laws regarding youth access to tobacco.  It also contains brand and image standards stating that you will not permit the sale of tobacco to minors at a branded location you supply. Violation of such laws and/or standards could constitute grounds for termination or nonrenewal of the agreement or the debranding of the non-complying branded outlet.   
 
If required by your supply agreement, the Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with the state attorneys general also requires that you inform Phillips 66 in writing within five (5) business days of any notices of violation received from local, state or federal authorities concerning the sale of tobacco to minors. If you receive such a notice of violation, the appropriate method for you to report the matter promptly to Phillips is located on the Performance page of Gateway. 

Please contact your Sales Representative or Account Specialist if you have any questions.  

Thank you for your cooperation in this important matter.