Brussels, 08/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - Belarus' decision to interrupt the Druzbha oil pipeline which carries Russian oil to Poland and Germany crossing Belarusian territory does not pose an “immediate risk to the supply of oil to the EU”, Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said on Monday in a press release. He nonetheless announced that he is considering convening the Oil Supply Group later this week to “evaluate the impact of the situation and in case the supply disruption causes Member States to draw on their strategic stocks”. Piebalg's spokesman service specified that Germany currently had reserve supplies for 130 days, and Poland 70. The Druzbha pipeline caries 50 million tonnes of oil annually, of which 18 million tonnes are intended for Poland and 22 million tonnes for Germany. The Commission said on Monday that it did not yet know the exact cause of the interruption in supply and called on the Russian and Belarusian authorities to provide “an urgent and detailed explanation of the cause of this disruption”. Belarus had announced last week that a $45 tax would be levied on each tonne of Russian oil carried by its pipelines as of 1 January 2007. Moscow accused Minsk on Monday of siphoning off Russian oil. (hb)