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US lawmakers include expanded Nord Stream-2 sanctions in 2021 defence bill - Statement

Washington, Dec 4 (Sputnik) Negotiating teams from both chambers of the US Congress said in a joint statement that they included expanded sanctions against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the final version of the 2021 defence spending bill.
"The House bill contained a provision (sec. 1248) that would amend subsection (a)(1) of section 7503 of the Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019 (title LXXV of Public Law 116-92) to clarify and expand sanctions relating to the construction of Nord Stream 2 or Turkstream pipeline projects. The Senate amendment contained a similar provision (sec. 6231)," the joint statement said on Thursday.
The Nord Stream 2 project aims to lay a 745-mile-long twin pipeline that will carry up to 1.942 trillion cubic feet of gas annually from Russia to Germany, passing through the territorial waters or the exclusive economic zones of Denmark, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden.
The United States seeks to block the pipeline’s construction, which is nearing completion, and imposed sanctions against pipe-laying contractors a year ago, forcing the Swiss company Allseas to abandon the project.
Expanded restrictions target a wider variety of companies, including those that render insurance, reinsurance, underwriting, testing, inspection, or certification services “necessary or essential for the completion of such a project.”
Providers of services or facilities for technology upgrades or installation of welding equipment for, or retrofitting or tethering” of pipe-laying vessels are also in danger of US sanctions, according to the bill.
About 120 companies from more than 12 European counties will reportedly be affected.
The House of Representatives and the Senate are expected to vote on the final bill next week.
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