The European Commission plans to ban liquefied natural gas terminals in the European Union from providing services to Russian companies. About this informs Reuters.
According to the document, from January 1, 2026 LNG terminals in the EU will not be able to service new contracts with Russian exporters. Current short-term contracts have a transition period until June 17, 2026, and long-term contracts must be terminated by December 31, 2027.
This is part of Brussels’ broader plans to completely phase out Russian gas by the end of 2027. As part of these measures, the European Commission also proposes to ban the signing of new gas contracts with Russia by the end of this year.
To monitor the implementation of the ban, companies importing gas to the EU will have to report the country of origin of the fuel, as well as provide details of their contracts: duration, volumes, date of signing and delivery conditions. Companies may resist such requirements, as has happened in the past, if they are not guaranteed strict data privacy.
It will be recalled that in April the EU abandoned the idea of introducing sanctions against the import of Russian liquefied gas. At the same time, Ukraine is waiting for the EU to refuse Russian LNG. In the first 100 days of his work, the new EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen planned to present a plan to reduce the share of Russian gas in the EU market to zero faster than the agreement for 2027. However, the document is still under preparation.
