SECTORAL POLICIES / Energy

MEPs want stricter rules on exceptions to EU law for gas pipelines from third countries

Brussels, 21/03/2018 (Agence Europe)

The European Parliament energy committee voted by 41 to 13, with 9 abstentions on Wednesday 21 March to adopt the draft Parliament amendments prepared by its chair Jerzy Buzek (Poland) to the proposal presented by the European Commission in November 2018 to amend the 2009 gas directive in order to clarify the regulatory framework for gas pipelines into the EU from third countries – and thus set the rules for the controversial Russian pipeline project Nord Stream-2 (see EUROPE 11900).

The...