On Thursday 22 February, the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Maroš Šefčovič, welcomed the initial response from companies to the launch of a new ‘mid-termtender’ aimed at transforming the joint gas purchase aggregation mechanism, via AggregateEU, into a permanent instrument (see EUROPE B13342A7) and invited international suppliers to submit their bids.
A total of 19 companies submitted applications for a volume of almost 34 billion cubic metres of gas, of...