According to him, the project is currently being checked for compliance with European energy legislation.
"A department in Germany is doing this, completely without politics," RIA Novosti quoted Scholz as saying at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron following the EU summit.
He noted that this requires a lot of consultations.
Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel called the decision of the German regulator to postpone the certification of Nord Stream 2 as a political one.