MADRID, 16 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Russian gas company Gazprom has warned that a cap on gas prices, as considered by the countries of the European Union, would mean the immediate cessation of its supply due to non-compliance with the signed contracts, the president of the company’s Board of Directors has warned Alexei Miller.
“Our guide is the signed contracts. A decision of such a unilateral nature would, of course, be considered a violation of the essential terms of the contract, which implies the termination of the supplies,” he warned in an interview with the journalist Pavel Zarubin collected by the Russian agency TASS.
Last week, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced her intention to propose to the bloc’s leaders an intervention in the European gas market and establish a maximum limit on the maximum price of contracts in the European reference index. , Dutch TTF (Title Transfer Facility) and, in parallel, increase gas consumption savings levels at a community level through demand reduction auctions.
The approach of the president of the Community Executive is in line with the working document presented by Brussels two weeks ago in which they put on the table measures such as putting a limit on the price of gas in the formation of electricity prices, similar to the ‘mechanism Iberian’.
The European Commission also planned to determine a maximum price for gas imports from Moscow, either through a gas pipeline or in the form of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), although 15 Member States requested last week that it be applied to all purchases of gas to the EU.
