OREANDA-NEWS. The Danish Energy Agency has granted Nord Stream 2 AG permission to lay the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline along the route southeast of the island of Bornholm. This was announced on Monday in a press release of the department. 

"The Danish Energy Agency has granted Nord Stream 2 AG permission to lay part of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on the Danish continental shelf southeast of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea", the statement said. According to the agency, this route is the safest and meets environmental standards.

Nord Stream 2 is almost completed, its commissioning is scheduled for the end of 2019. Earlier, the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller predicted that the construction of a section of the pipeline through Danish waters would take about five weeks after obtaining permission from the authorities. Recall that Nord Stream 2 is a project to expand the existing Nord Stream gas pipeline. It connects Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea and bypasses the transit countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and other East European and Baltic states.