OREANDA-NEWS. Gazprom is announcing its international cooperation plans for 2007.  Gazprom keeps maintaining regular contacts with European Union officials.

“We are fully aware of and share the concerns of the European Commission over EU energy supply related issues and support the EU efforts to create a single European energy market,” said Alexander Medvedev.

“We are firmly convinced that a bigger share of Gazprom in the downstream sector will lead to a lesser degree of the European market monopolization.”

Gazprom’s decisions to abandon the Territorial Limitations, Right of First Refusal and Preferred Customer clauses in its contracts with European consumers points to the Company’s readiness to take account of EU initiatives in its business activity.