Yatsenyuk complained to the EU “illegal” contract “Gazprom” Slovakia – RBC

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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The head of the Ukrainian government Yatsenyuk sent a letter to the European Union, which announced the EU legislation, non-compliance of the agreement between the company “Gazprom” and the Slovak gas operator EUstream. According to Yatsenyuk, the agreement prevents the use of the power to reverse the EUstream European gas to Ukraine. The documents available to the Agency was able to Reuters.

«This outdated contract between EUstream and” Gazprom export “is in direct violation of EU law” – leads the agency quote from the letter.

The letter is appended document the law firm Wikborg Rein, which states that the Russian company controls the flow through the pipeline Uzhgorod – veľké kapušany prevents the Ukrainian gas transportation company “Ukrtransgaz”. Ukraine has repeatedly appealed to Slovakia to organize Reverse supplies through this pipeline, but EUstream refused, citing the contract with “Gazprom».

This is not the first appeal to the EU institutions of the Ukrainian authorities about “Gazprom” and EUstream . In April, the European Commission asked the company “Naftogaz”, which is also claimed that agreement on the transit capacity booking between “Gazprom” and EUstream contrary to the law by the European Union. “In the case of Slovakia – a company EUstream, where there is a relatively old agreement, which, in our opinion and the opinion of our legal advisors, contrary to European legislation, about which we have already officially applied to the EU”, – said at the time on the Ukrainian “5 channel “chairman” Naftogaz “Andrew Kobolev.

In addition, as reported on the website of” Naftogaz “April 28,” Ukrtransgaz “EUstream offered to sign an agreement on cooperation between the two neighboring systems. Ukrainian side insisted that “Gazprom export” is not the operator of the gas transport system of Ukraine, since such an agreement was never signed. On the same day, “Ukrtransgaz” and signed a memorandum of EUstream Reverse supply.

Kobolev stated that the facts set out by the Ukrainian side may also be the subject of the investigation, which the EU is against “Gazprom”. April 22 The European Commission brought Russian “Gazprom” a formal accusation of infringement of the competition rules of the European Union. “The European Commission has sent a notice of claim to” Gazprom “, arguing that some of its methods of work in the markets of Central and Eastern Europe are an abuse of dominant position in the market and in violation of the antimonopoly legislation of the EU”, – said then to the EC.

How to tell the European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager, the “Gazprom” has 12 weeks to respond to the charges and to request an oral hearing to present its arguments.

The investigation of the European Commission, which suspected the “Gazprom” Restrictions on the free supply of gas to the markets of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria, started in 2012. Russian corporations are suspected of obstructing the diversification of gas supply and the establishment of unfair prices in the long-term contracts.