COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Energy

Advocate general says revised Gas Directive directly and individually concerns Nord Stream 2 AG

Brussels, 07/10/2021 (Agence Europe)

Advocate General Michal Bobek ruled in his opinion delivered on Wednesday, 6 October, (case C-348/20) that the Swiss company Nord Stream 2 AG—which operates the gas pipeline of the same name between Russia and Germany and which is owned by the Russian gas company Gazprom—can challenge the revised Gas Directive (2019/692), which extends certain rules for the internal market in natural gas to gas pipelines from non-EU countries, before the European Union courts.

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