Recital 15

(15) The pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 have been designed to transmit natural gas from Russia to the Union. They are controlled by the Russian Government via state-owned enterprises. Both pipelines were damaged in September 2022 and are currently non-operational. Nord Stream had supplied Russian natural gas to Europe, while Nord Stream 2 never started operations. Russia has repeatedly, unilaterally and, by the end of August 2022, completely disrupted supplies of natural gas through Nord Stream, in order to coerce the Union and its Member States and undermine their support for Ukraine. Moreover, supplying natural gas through those pipelines in the future could generate revenues for Russia, thereby enabling the continuation of its war of aggression against Ukraine. In order to prevent the resumption or the establishment of natural gas supplies through those pipelines, Decision (CFSP) 2025/1495 introduces restrictive measures banning any transaction that is directly or indirectly connected to the natural gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 and that concerns the completion, operation, maintenance or use of the pipelines or parts of the pipelines. The transaction ban should also cover the purchase of natural gas transported via either pipeline. Targeted exemptions and derogations should apply to ensure that existing control mechanisms over the pipelines via restructuring mechanisms, in particular in connection with Nord Stream AG and Nord Stream 2 AG, remain in place, in order to ensure that the pipelines will not be used.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-16 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.