Commissioning of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline equipment onshore in RussiaMOSCOW, Jan 18< /strong>German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock said that if energy is used by Russia as a «weapon», then there will be consequences for the Nord Stream 2 project. «In our coalition agreement of the new government, we emphasized that infrastructure projects, and this applies to all energy infrastructure projects, including Nord Stream 2, the European energy legislation is in force, both the letter and the spirit of it. Therefore, the certification procedure for this project is now underway. For now, this procedure has been suspended,» Burbock said after talks with the Foreign Minister Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.In Ukraine, the Germans were reproached for wanting to make money on Nord Stream 2. «We have stressed again and again at various levels: if energy is used as a weapon, then this will have corresponding consequences, including in connection with this pipeline,» The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year will already be stretched along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to Germany, but its certification has been suspended by the German authorities due to the fact that the regulator considered it necessary for Nord Sream 2 AG to create an enterprise in Germany -daughter and submit a new application for certification as an operator already on her behalf — this is necessary under European law. After this application is submitted and accepted, the regulator will resume the process, make its decision, on which the European Commission will then express its opinion. According to the German media, this process may take several months. The Russian Federation has repeatedly stated that Nord Stream 2, which is actively opposed by the United States and Ukraine, is commercial, beneficial to Europe, and urged to stop mentioning it in the context of any politicization.
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