OSW: The gas directive revision – EU law poses problems for Nord Stream 2

On 20 February, the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Council (COREPER) endorsed a compromise version of the amendments to the gas directive which had been agreed a week earlier during the tripartite ‘trilogue’ meeting with the European Parliament & European Commission. This almost certainly guarantees that, after the last few formal steps are […]

Axios: What can the gas directive do to Nord Stream 2?

Anna Mikulska (nonresident fellow in energy studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies and a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy) and Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl wrote an article for Axios, where they predicted the effect of the revised EU gas directive on the contested […]

Gas directive: Provisional agreement on new rules for gas pipelines to and from third countries

The rules governing the EU’s internal gas market will in future also apply to gas pipelines to and from third countries. The Romanian Presidency of the Council reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament on an amendment to the so-called gas directive. The agreement will now be submitted to the member states’ representatives in […]

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