The MEPs responsible for the development of the current EU gas legislation sent a letter to the regulator of the German gas market, in which they urged not to certify the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

MEPs are confident that the project does not meet the key requirement of the third energy package, namely, the prohibition of one company to be the owner of the pipe and the gas supplier at the same time.

Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the construction and the owner of the pipes laid along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, is a 100% subsidiary of Gazprom. Despite this, the company filed an application with the Federal Network Agency in Germany, claiming that it is independent of the supplier – that is, Gazprom.

The gas regulator has to review the application until January. But the MEPs are sure that there is nothing to consider.