Ukraine-Russia war, Italy in pre-alarm for gas: what it means

Ukraine-Russia war, declared a state of pre-alarm in Italy for gas due to the current situation. This is a first step of three and which only involves monitoring the situation. Read also The Ministry of Ecological Transition, Competent Authority for the security of natural gas supplies, reads a note published on the Snam website, “considering the current state of war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine and that such situation insists on the territory through which most of the natural gas supplies that supply the Italian system pass, considering that the level of danger of the threat to supplies is significantly higher than that envisaged in the risk analyzes carried out in the past in compliance with the 2017 EU Regulation / 1938, from which the current preventive and emergency action plans derive “, has” deemed it appropriate to prepare exceptional preventive measures aimed at encouraging early storage filling with respect to the procedures adopted under normal conditions, as also discussed at the European level during the last meeting of the Gas Coordination Group on 23 February ” , and “considered it appropriate to sensitize the users of the national gas system of the situation of uncertainty linked to the aforementioned conflict also in relation to the implementation of the Guidance Act of the Minister of Ecological Transition of 24 February 2022, although the supply situation is currently adequate to cover domestic demand, pursuant to Article 11, letter a), of EU Regulation 2017/1938 and point 2.1 of the Emergency Plan of the Italian natural gas system (Annex 2 to the Ministerial Decree of 18 December 2019 and subsequent amendments and ii), having consulted the Technical Emergency and Monitoring Committee of the national gas system, declares the state of pre-alarm “.