. Changes in the EU Directive affect only a small part of the " Nord stream - 2 ", said the head of "Gazprom export" Elena Burmistrova. However, in her expressions, as long as it is premature to assess the impact on the project of changes in the Gas Directive, as in March will be a meeting of the Council for transport, telecommunications and energy, which have the ability to make additional Changes. in November 2017, the European Commission made a proposal to adjust the Gas Directive of the EU. Their goal is to make some provisions of the energy law has been applied to all pipelines within the EU coming from or to third countries. These laws include, for example, non-discriminatory tariffs for pumping gas, third party access To transit, separation of sales and transportation of gas. Currently, these rules do not apply to marine gas pipeline sections. the 1st and foremost, the amendments would be hit by the " Nord stream - 2 ". But there is also some schemes provide exceptions to the new rules of the Directive, which is expected to do limited in duration. They depend on whether the pipeline is new or already existing. To the latter is expected to carry the pipes, which was completed prior to the entry of new rules into effect, reported the source. He did not rule out that the entry into force of the new rules may be in June. the construction of the pipeline involves laying 2 gas thread with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters per year off the coast of Russia through the Baltic sea to Germany. Permission already issued Germany, Finland and Sweden left Denmark. Against the "Nord stream - 2" are certain countries in the 1st place Ukraine, which fears to lose the income from the transit of gas from Russia, and the United States, promoting Grand plans to export its LNG to the European Union. in addition, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland jointly stated that they do not approve of the project - Their leaders believe that It is political. Russia has many times urged to accept the pipeline as a tool of influence. According to Vladimir Putin, Moscow refers To the project as economic. <span style="color:darkgray