EU ROUND UP – RUSSIA CHALLENGES WTO THIRD PACKAGE AT WTO
May 9th, 2014
RUSSIA is challenging the European Union’s (EU) third energy package at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), claiming its requirements for market access and unbundling break EU WTO commitments for open trading with other countries. Moscow is concerned the law will, for instance, allow competitors access to infrastructure such as the South Stream pipeline it wants to build across the Black Sea.A WTO note said Russia had alleged that these liberalisation measures were partly a way of limiting its legitimate exports - Moscow cited “discriminatory certification ...
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