BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 28. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament has proposed the expansion of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), which are delivering Azerbaijani gas to Europe, Trend reports October 28 citing the European Parliament.
The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety calls on the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, as the committees responsible, to take into account the following amendment to the Regulation (EU) 2021/241 as regards REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans:
As regards the scope of projects addressing energy infrastructure bottlenecks, and in particular gas infrastructure bottlenecks, Member States may take into account the following non-exhaustive indicative list of projects:
Baltic Sea region:
- floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) involving Finland, Estonia and Latvia-
- a second LNG terminal in Poland
Western Europe:
- deodorisation unit enabling gas flows from West to East between France and Germany
- gas infrastructure reinforcements to increase export capacity from Belgium to Germany
- additional LNG terminal in Germany
- hydrogen-ready cross-border infrastructure project on the Iberian Peninsula South and Eastern Europe:
- expansion of the capacity of the LNG terminal in Krk with combined with the enhancement of the Croatian transmission grid towards Slovenia and Hungary
- upgrade of TAP with additional infrastructure capacity in the Italian transmission grid (Adriatica Line and Mattagiola)
- expansion of Interconnector Greece - Bulgaria (IGB phase II).
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