“the Strength of our arguments fast enough, referring to the Court. The reaction from the beginning was intended, and it was surprisingly fast,” said the President of PGNiG Piotr Wozniak on Tuesday during a press conference.
the court made the decision on suspension of execution of the decision of the European Commission ws. to guarantee Gazprom 80%. throughput capacity of the Opal gas pipeline issued on December 23. Although it is not yet officially published, the company was notified of. According to Peter Wozniak, publication will occur before the end of the year.
in accordance with the decision of the EC from 28 October, Russian “Gazprom” on 1 January 2017. use 80 percent. bandwidth Tans, the gas pipeline passing on territory of Germany in parallel on the Polish-German border. It is a continuation run under the Baltic sea gas pipeline Nord Stream. The entry point is located on the shore of the Baltic Sea, to Greifswald, and its outlet-at the border of the German-Czech Republic in the city of Brandov.
President of the PGNiG noted that the Court’s decision means that Opal can’t use the way I wanted “Gazprom”.
the Russian has been trying to obtain permission for full use of the pipeline. More before Opal would mean the possibility of increasing the transmission Nord Streamem and a reduced role of Ukraine as a transit country. In the words of Peter Wozniak, from 7 years Gazprom has consistently
pursuing a policy of reducing the role of the Ukraine. Together with the commissioning of the sea gas pipeline Nord Stream and its ground sleeve, that is, Tans and Nel, falling volumes of supplies through Ukraine, primarily through the Pipeline ” Brotherhood. Before the launch of Nord Stream bus that was used on 91%. currently only 37%.
As the Director of the Department of regulation and international cooperation in PGNiG, Yuri Kawik volume of gas that passed through Ukraine, “was immediately” will be redirected to the Nord Stream pipeline. According to him, if the EC decision gives “to Gazprom” the right of reservation 80%. bandwidth Tans was taken, it might lead to limiting the transit of Russian gas through Polish territory, the construction of the pipeline jamalskim. It is currently the only pipeline in our part of Europe, whose powers are used on 100%.
President Petro Wozniak said that the company still does not have access to the original version of the European Commission’s decision of 28 October. “It’s very difficult to trial on this issue,” he said. As he said, on Tuesday, it’s been 61 days since the announcement of this decision.
As told the Vice-President of PGNiG for commercial Maciej Wozniak, the company “did not find such a precedent” to KE so long to publish your decision making.
Mothers Wozniak reacted to poniedziałkowych information of Russian agencies, that, despite the Court’s decision, “Gazprom” has ordered 81 percent. the ability of Tans.
“we can’t confirm this, but if it happened it would be a violation of the Court order,” said Maciej Wozniak.
Before Christmas, the Polish government appealed to the Court of justice of the EU and the EC decision on this issue. In early December, PGNiG Supply & Trading, a subsidiary of PGNiG filed in the EU Court action against the EC ws. exclude the Opal gas pipeline under the requirements of the third energy package. In turn, in mid-December, the company PGNiG and PGNiG Supply & Trading zaskarżyły for the German court agreement between the Bundesnetzagentur, Gazprom, Gazprom Export and OPAL Gastransport GmbH for the early release of “Gazprom” with the rules of third party access to the capacity of a pipeline.
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