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    TurkStream through Serbia – yesterday it was close, today it is a little further?

    The TurkStream gas pipeline could “dry out” if the Energy Community does not find a new solution in further talks with the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia.

    Although Serbia has tentatively received positive opinion from the Energy Community (EC) on exclusion of third party access to a future gas pipeline that will go through Serbia and be connected to Bulgarian and Hungarian national distribution system, that does not mean that construction can start tomorrow.

    On the contrary, there will be many more conditions that our country would have to fulfil in order for first pipe to be laid, the „Politika“ daily reports from well-informed sources close to the EC.

    This time the issue is once again the Third Energy Package, which implies that Gastrans, enterprise that would build a gas pipeline through Serbia, would be both the owner of gas and gas pipeline, for which our country has requested opinion of the Energy Community.

    Instead of positive opinion, the EC believes that Serbia must, to a certain extent, allow third companies to conduct gas trade and gas transport via this gas pipeline as well, thus excluding monopoly of the Serbian side. Regardless of the fact that both Russians and Serbs are paying for construction and gas supply.

    This opinion, at least for the time being, does not apply to the Russian side, only to Serbian. The Energy Community should elaborate on its decision in the next couple of days, by releasing so called additional conditions on its website.

    The source of the „Politika“ daily says that the Energy Community is actually worried about the stake of Gazprom and Srbijagas in this region. This is a “complicated” positive opinion, which comes as no surprise if one is familiar with pressure of both Brussels and the U.S. on construction of any kind of gas pipeline that should transport Russian gas. That is why „Nord Stream 2“ has been obstructed as well in recent days.

    The Energy Community is actually „walking on thin ice“ because it cannot fully reject Serbia due to a possible scandal on numerous grounds, mainly because of the fact that Serbian side has fully sorted out and submitted documentation in which it has as valid arguments for exclusion, based on both Serbian and European laws. The final decision, the same source says, is at the Energy Agency, thus one must not yet rush with definitive decision, the „Politika“ daily reports.

    Izvor: Politika

    Foto: FI

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