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ENERGY: Commission decides to reduce to 50% the portion of OPAL's capacity exempt from third party access rules

Brussels, 28/10/2016 (Agence Europe)

On Friday 28 October, the European Commission published stricter exemption conditions for running German gas pipeline OPAL, connected with the Russo-German gas pipeline under the Baltic, Nord Stream, which runs along Germany’s eastern border to the Czech Republic.

Since its launch in 2011, OPAL has been subject to a 100% exemption from EU internal energy market rules on third party access and tariff regulation.

Now, under the revised decision, the use of only 50% of OPAL's capacity will...