“As far as we know, the company continues to communicate with the regulator and continues the certification process,” said Peskov.
According to him, the Kremlin does not predict when this will happen.
He also added that "this is an exclusively regulator's question" and the Russian side does not set a deadline for itself in the issue of the project.
Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov called the decision of the German regulator to postpone the certification of Nord Stream 2 as a political decision.
On December 16, it became known that the German regulator suspended the certification of Nord Stream 2 AG as an independent operator of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
On November 16, it became known that Nord Stream 2 AG decided to establish a subsidiary in Germany in order to meet the country's requirements for certification of the German section of the pipeline.