The natural gas suppliers of last resort will be obliged to store natural gas in an amount equal to the consumption for two winter months. Such an amendment to the law on the natural gas was proposed by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development, IPN reports.

According to Minister Andrei Spînu, they also suggest that the Government should have the right to impose the obligation to store natural gas for the state reserves and propose introducing the necessary legal framework for determining, in a harmonized way, the entry and exit tariffs for the transport service – the mechanism of reciprocal compensation between transport operators.

It is also proposed introducing specific provisions concerning the integrity and transparency of the wholesale natural gas market and empowering the National Agency for Energy Regulation to carry out investigations into natural gas market manipulation cases – REMIT Regulations, and demarcating the online trading activities and natural gas supply.

The draft Government decision to adopt the bill to amend a number of normative documents is available for public debates on particip.gov.md until December 10.