Nord Stream 2 hits more hurdles

摘要

May has not been kind to the backers of the Russia-Germany Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in their efforts to escape obligations to offer non-discriminatory third-party access (TEA) under the EU's revised Gas Directive. First, in mid-May German energy regulator the Bundesnet-zagentur rejected an application from Nord Stream 2 s Swiss holding company for a derogation from the directive for the section of the pipeline on German soil. Later in the month, the EU Court of Justice threw out the company's bid to annul the revised directive altogether.