At the same time expert questioned whether Friday’s decision of the Polish office antymonolopowego may have an impact on retention of the investment.
“It would be too good to be true, that the decision of the Polish UOKiK przesądzałaby to implement, or discontinue execution Nord Stream 2. but it is so much important that clearly confirms that such a construction has a negative impact on genuine free competition in the supply of natural gas primarily Polish, but also all countries in the region. It is inherently inconsistent with the foundations of the common European market “- said the PAP Nierada.
on Friday, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection announced that it has reservations about the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline 2. Authority concluded that the formation of a company that would build and operate the pipeline Nord Stream 2 , strengthen, and so a strong position of Gazprom in Poland.
“Concentration can lead to a restriction of competition. at the moment, Gazprom holds a dominant position in the supply of gas to the Polish and the transaction could lead to further strengthening the bargaining power of the company to customers in our country, “- he said on Friday the head of UOKiK Marek Niechciał, quoted in the release.
According displeased position of the OCCP is the” obvious factual summary “.
” the fact is that Gazprom has the dominant supplier. With the realization of the Nord Stream 2, especially in terms of access of third parties to discharge and distribute gas – that player would gain an unjustified advantage infrastructure. There would an artificial barrier to entry for any other suppliers, “- he said.
In the last. The shareholders of the planned Nord Stream 2, six companies: OAO Gazprom of Russia, Uniper Global Commodities SE of Germany, Engi from France, OMV Nord Stream II Holding of Switzerland, Shell Exploration and Production (LXXI) BV of the Netherlands, Wintershall Nederland BV from the Netherlands turned to the Polish antitrust authority for permission to allow the establishment of the company in Switzerland. the company would design, finance, build and operate two parallel subsea pipelines. they run from the Russian coast of the Baltic Sea to the starting point near Greifswald in Germany. Their power transmission is 55 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
“I expect that an interested party may appeal the decision of the OCCP while for us it is extremely important to maintain a level playing field for all interested in the functioning of the European energy market. This is what is currently called for by the promoters of the project Nord Stream 2, seeks to grant the consortium rights to this special treatment, or to withdraw from the common rules of the game on the energy market of the EU. This is in itself contrary to the principle of energy solidarity and building common solidarity energy security in the EU added the expert.
Poland is firmly opposed to the construction of the next (after dwunitkowym Nord Stream 1) bypass our country undersea bus transport gas.
M.in. Secretary of State in the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, the Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure Piotr Naimski repeatedly that we are opposed to this project, because from the economic, commercial consolidates Gazprom’s dominant position in the region, which is not in the interest of the Polish. Nord stream2 can be used as a tool of pressure on those countries with whom we want to work, primarily Ukraine and threatens europoejskiej solidarity.
The issue of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 was also raised during the interview Andrzej Duda and Barack Obama during the summit in July NATO in Warsaw. He said after a meeting of the presidents minister Krzysztof Szczerski, both leaders of a large part of their conversation devoted to energy security. He pointed out that both sides critically evaluated the project Nord Stream 2.
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