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Council Directive 2004/67/EC of 26 April 2004 concerning measures to safeguard security of natural gas supply (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

(9) In order to meet growing demand for gas and diversify gas supplies as a condition for a competitive internal gas market, the Community will need to mobilise significant additional volumes of gas over the coming decades much of which will have to come from distant sources and transported over long distances.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.