Roadmap UE: “From the end of 2025 Stop to Russian gas on spot markets” | EUROtoday

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Prohibition of import of Russian fuel in the marketplace spot and in lengthy -term contracts, nationwide plans to coordinate the motion of the twenty -seven and inflexible guidelines for firms: it offers for the “roadmap to put an end to the imports of Russian energy” of the EU Commission. For subsequent month, legislative proposals additionally guarantees to interrupt down the newest vitality provides by the top of 2027, publicizes the ban from the top of 2025 of Russian fuel imports in all spots, new and present contracts, and from the top of 2027 for lengthy -term contracts. In 2024 the EU imported 52 cubic meters of Russian fuel: 32 with fuel pipelines and 20 with GNL.

In the communication offered by the Commissioner for Energy Dan Jorgensen, the European Commission proposes a gradual and coordinated strategy to the elimination of Russian fuel, all the time asserting a legislative proposal for the month of June to bind the Member States to current “by the end of the year” of the nationwide plans to “plan and monitor the elimination” of imports from the Kremlin. The plans must include the amount of Russian fuel imports within the context of present contracts, a calendar with the levels to achieve 2027 and the diversification choices and technical abilities to switch Russian fuel.

A legislative proposal for strengthening transparency, monitoring and traceability of Russian fuel by firms within the imports of the twenty -seven are additionally awaited for the following month. Although the EU drastically decreased the imports of Energy from Moscow, in 2024, the Russian GNL share elevated by 5.5percentand Moscow was the second liquefied fuel provider (17.5%) of the EU (after the United States, to 45.3%).

However, Brussels remembers that he has supported diversification efforts “with 184.7 billion euros” via nationwide plans for restoration and resilience, with 5.84 billion euros via the mechanism to attach Europe to finance cross -border infrastructures and 55 billion euros from EU cohesion. The imports of Russian fuel within the EU, nevertheless, went from 45% of 2021 to 19% in 2024, and needs to be decreased to 13% in 2025.