GAS TRANSMISSION
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLDOMINANT gas companies and network authorities should be bound by the same proposed duties to free up pipeline capacity for foreign competitors to offer cross-border supplies, say European Parliament amendments to a new gas transmission regulation. MEPs were concerned that a monopolistic gas supplier could use its control of capacity slots in a pipeline network nominally run by a transmission regulator to circumvent the regulation, stifling the trade in gas between neighbouring European Union (EU) networks. The proposed regulation would set rules ...
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