Paris has called for companies shipping Russian gas to be better identified at EU ports in an effort to stop an increase of Russian fossil fuels coming into the bloc.
France, along with nine other countries including Austria and the Czech Republic, circulated a paper ahead of an EU energy ministers’ meeting on Tuesday calling for the European Commission to require suppliers of Russian liquefied natural gas to identify themselves clearly when cargoes are unloaded at EU ports and to improve transparency on the volume of imports.
Some gas suppliers that booked capacity to import Russian LNG at EU ports “are currently not properly identified”, the paper said.