“Gazprom”, he cancelled the agreement of shareholders of company Nord Stream 2 – Onet.pl

the Board of Directors unanimously made the decision on Wednesday, and on Friday reported on it the Russian company.

2 Nord Stream AG has headquarters in Switzerland and its objective is the design, construction and subsequent operation of the Nord Stream pipeline 2.

at the end of last year “Gazprom” and its European partners – French Engie, Austria’s OMV, British-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, German Wintershall and Uniper – appealed to the Polish office for Protection of Competition and Consumers ‘ rights, a statement of permission for the establishment of the company for the construction of the Nord Stream-2. In July UOKiK announced, objections to plans of calling of the companies, indicating that the Nord Stream pipeline 2 can increase the dominance of Gazprom in gas supplies to Poland. Soon after that Gazprom and its partners have removed an application with UOKiK.

the Agency TASS reported, citing a source in Gazprom that the termination of the agreement “technical step” and paves the way for further forms of cooperation with Western partners on the construction of Nord Stream-2.

“This is a technical step, which must be approved by the Board of Directors, after the application of Polish competition authorities. This action creates the background for defining new ways of cooperation with Western partners in the implementation of this important project,” said the source.

In the expression for TASS the head of “Gazprom” Alexei Miller said that the project participants intend to the end of the year to determine the new its funding model; if a Swiss-registered company fully owned by Gazprom and Western partners still do not constitute its capital.

the Nord Stream Pipeline-2 to be built under the Baltic sea, in parallel, launched in 2011, the Nord Stream pipeline. This should be a two-line button sewing machine lockstitch mainline gas transmission capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of raw materials per year from Russia to Germany. The project this objection, Poland, the Baltic States and Ukraine.