Members of the European Parliament have voted overwhelmingly to extend gas market regulations to cover pipelines that will deliver gas to the European Union but originate outside the EU, writes Vladimir Afanasiev.
The amendment to the existing EU Gas Directive was approved late last week with 465 votes in its favour, 95 against and 68 abstentions.
As a result, Gazprom's Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream projects will be subject to regulations that require pipeline operators to be independent of gas suppliers and call on the pipeline owners to make at least 50% of line capacities available to unrelated third-party suppliers.
