Today, the Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a provisional political agreement which provides for the permanently stop imports of Russian gas and phase out Russian oil prices, with the aim of declared to end the EU's dependence on a supplier that has repeatedly destabilized European markets security of supply put at risk with energy blackmail and damaged the European economy.

Today's agreement ensures a gradual but permanent end to the Russian gas imports, with the phasing out of imports of liquefied natural gas by 31 December 2026, and via pipeline by 30 September 2027. Exceptionally, the Member States will be able to extend this deadline until 31 October 2027 where their storage levels are below the levels of storage needed.

The agreement provides that Member States must submit by on March 1st, national plans that define the measures to diversify their gas and oil supplies. In addition will be required to notify the European Commission, within one month from the entry into force of the Regulation, if they have contracts of Russian gas supply or national rules prohibiting them. The Commission will carry out an assessment of the plans and, if necessary, necessary recommendations, within three months of the receipt of plans.

To avoid circumvention of the gas ban, the new regulation establishes monitoring mechanisms and the obligation for the authorities to cooperate and exchange information on gas imports natural. The European Commission has specified that the measures set out in the Regulation will be implemented in a timely and well-defined manner coordinated with Member States in order to minimise the possible impacts on prices, stabilising markets through safe and predictable alternative supplies and ensure certainty of law.

"Today - underlined the President of the Commission European Union, Ursula von der Leyen - we are entering the era of full Europe's energy independence from Russia. REPowerEU - ha highlighted with reference to the European plan to phase out fossil fuel imports from Russia - has given the its fruits. It has protected us from the worst energy crisis in the United States. over the past few decades and has helped us to implement the transition from Russian fossil fuels at a record speed. Today We are stopping these imports permanently. Impoverishing Putin's spoils of war, we stand in solidarity with Ukraine and We are aiming for new energy partnerships and opportunities for the sector".