Permanent Representative to the EU Chizhov said that the decision on certification of SP-2 will be made no earlier than July

“For some reason, I have no doubt that the period for considering this case in the EC will be manually extended to the maximum possible, that is, up to four months.

So the decision on Nord Stream 2 will not be made before July,” he said.

At the end of January, the German Federal Network Agency (BNA) announced that it was expecting documents from Nord Stream 2 AG to continue certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

The agency also said that the certification of the operator of the gas pipeline section will resume after the completion of the transfer of underlying assets to the German subsidiary and verification of documentation.