Ambassador Melnyk: Germany's decision puts an end to speculations around Nord Stream 2
"This decision of the German authorities actually puts an end to numerous political speculations of last six months that certain forces in Germany allegedly intended to create legislative loopholes for Nord Stream 2 to exempt this controversial project from European legislation," Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany Andriy Melnyk said in a commentary to Ukrinform.
The diplomat stressed that Ukraine, whose economic and political interests are known to be significantly affected by the construction of this pipeline, had "absolute confidence" from the very first minute that Germany would ensure fair and impartial consideration of the possible exemption of Nord Stream 2 from the EU regulation.
Ukraine is very grateful to its German partners for the bilateral consultations on energy issues, during which Ukraine received assurances that the changes in German legislation approved by the Bundestag in November 2019 were in no way and could not be aimed at providing any exceptions to this project.
"Therefore, we consider the decision of the Bundesnetzagentur a kind of triumph in fair consideration of the interests of both interested EU countries and, above all, Ukraine as a future EU member state which highly values the constant strong support and solidarity of official Berlin," Melnyk said.
German regulator – the Bundesnetzagentur – approved its final decision on 15 May 2020 to reject exemption of Nord Stream 2 AG from the EU law for a part of Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that runs through Germany, according to Article 28b of the federal Energy Industry Act (EnWG).
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