After sending a statement of obligations to Gazprom in April 2015 alleging that Gazprom followed a strategy to partition gas markets in eight Central and Eastern European countries and charged higher prices in five of them, the European Commission has taken a decision to terminate those conduct. The decision of the European Commission requires Gazprom to
- Remove contractual clauses disabling the customers to resell gas to other member states
- Enable gas flows to and from isolated member states such as Baltic states and Bulgaria
- Provide customers with an effective tool to ensure competitive gas prices for them like those prices in competitive gas markets of Western Europe
- Avoid leveraging its dominance on the gas supply market in order to have access to or control the gas infrastructure
The press release dated 24 May 2018 about the decision of the European Commission is available at http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-3921_en.htm