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2013 05 21

Brussels likely to tell Lithuania to scrap 25 percent rule, Prime Minister says

The European Commission, which is currently assessing the so-called “25 percent rule”, a Lithuanian legislative provision under which large gas users will have to purchase 25 percent of their gas supplies from the future liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, is likely to tell Lithuania to scrap this clause, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes.
Algirdas Butkevičius
Algirdas Butkevičius / Andriaus Ufarto/BFL nuotr.

“The European Commission has not yet made its final decision. As far as I know, the European Commission is currently studying this document. According to the information available to us – it is not official yet – they will tell Lithuania to cancel this decision,” he said in an interview to the Lithuanian Radio on Tuesday.

The government was initiating a proposal to cancel this rule, he said.

“I think that the 25 percent rule restricts the fundamental principle of the freedom of choice hence I think that we will have to make amendments in the near time and solve this problem”, Butkevičius said.

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