“The situation is tense, it cannot be ruled out that it will worsen,” the regulator said in a statement.

Meanwhile, it is noted that at present gas supplies to the country are stable.

Earlier, the vice-chairman of the CDU/CSU faction, Jens Spahn, asked the Vice-Chancellor, German Economy Minister Robert Habek to present a coherent plan to overcome the gas crisis in the country.

He asked the minister why the readiness for anything position in the government was replaced by the declaration of a new level of state of emergency.