The Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), the German regulatory office for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railway markets, sees no legislative barriers to a project for the construction of Nord Stream-2 pipeline.
This is what Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reports, citing a letter from the head of the Agency, Jochen Hohmann, in response to a respective request from the European Commission.
According to him, the project faces any legislative barrier neither at a level of the European Union, nor on the part of Germany, since marine pipelines don’t come within the provisions of the European regulation.
“Applying any other requirements to Nord Stream-2 would be an obvious discrimination,” - the head of the German regulatory office said.