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What goes on in Poland on the 16th of July.

The CEO of PGNiG believes that a possible positive ruling by the CJEU regarding the use of the transmission capacity of the OPAL gas pipeline may be used in the battle for the future of Nord Stream 2.

What goes on in Poland on the 19th of March.

What goes on in Poland on the 21st of October.

What goes on in Poland on the 18th of September.

The victory of Poles in the OPAL case does not threaten the security of gas supplies to Europe, but the unpredictable policy of Gazprom – writes Wojciech Jakóbik, editor-in-chief of BiznesAlert.pl. The OPAL verdict forces Gazprom to limit supplies via OPAL On September 10, the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union […]

On September 10th, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union, on an application from the governments of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, annulled the European Commission’s Decision No. C(2016) 6950 of October 28th 2016 enabling the monopolisation of access to the OPAL gas pipeline. The Court found that „the contested decision was adopted in […]

In recent months, two alarming decisions have been made by the European Commission (EC). First, in October 2016, the European Commission accepted, at the request of a German regulator, a further exemption from allowing third-party access (TPA) to the OPAL gas pipeline connecting northern Germany and the Czech Republic. Next, in March 2017, the European […]

„The Court’s verdict on the OPAL dispute will be made as late as in 2019. However, because of the Court’s President’s decision, until then Russian monopoly would be theoretically possible over the pipeline that transmits Russian gas through Germany to Central and Eastern Europe. However, the auctions will take place only in August 2018,” writes […]