EC: Tesla pipeline is not a priority for South-Eastern Europe – RIA Novosti

BRUSSELS, August 19 – RIA Novosti, Maria Knyazev. Project pipeline Tesla, which in the future can connect Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia is not yet for South-Eastern Europe a priority in ensuring security of supply of “blue fuel” to the region, according to the materials of the European Commission.

The foreign ministers of Hungary, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece may be the fall to sign a memorandum on the construction of a gas pipeline from Turkey to Austria, wrote in a Wednesday newspaper “Vedomosti “. The pipeline was named Tesla. The project has been referred to the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) to obtain the status of the project of public interest.

A spokesman for the European Commission recalled in an interview with RIA Novosti about the project launched by the European Commission, entitled “Gas communications East Central and South-Eastern Europe “(Central Eastern and South-Eastern European Gas Connectivity, CESEC). “With regard to security of supply (of gas – Ed.) In the South-Eastern Europe, the countries concerned in mid-July have identified priority projects in the gas sphere”, – said the representative of the EC.

Based on the materials of the European Commission, at the time of the definition of these projects on the pipeline CESEC Tesla was known, but the priority projects, he has not got. “Other major gas pipeline projects, such as Tesla, is not currently included in the structure of regional modeling CESEC”, – stated in the materials of the EC on priority projects CESEC.

On the basis of the Commission can conclude that Tesla can get into the list of projects of common interest (PCI). “The final decision of the European Commission will be made in the autumn of 2015″, – the source said.