Poland will continue its efforts to cancel the decision of the European Commission to grant Russia”s energy giant Gazprom more access to the OPAL pipeline, according to Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. Poland will continue its efforts to cancel the decision of the European Commission to grant Russia”s energy giant Gazprom more access to the OPAL pipeline, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told RIA Novosti in an interview.

“We [have] already initiated some sort of action and there are cases in the European tribunals,” Waszczykowski said.

“We will continue our policy, we will continue to pursue this policy in the international tribunals, in the European tribunals and the German tribunals,” the diplomat added.

Russia”s Gazprom will soon be able to bid for up to 12.8 Bcm/year of extra capacity in Germany”s 36.5 Bcm/year Opal natural gas pipeline after an EU court lifted a temporary ban in July.

The ban had been in place since December 23, when Polish gas company PGNiG convinced the EU General Court in Luxembourg to suspend temporarily a European Commission decision from October granting Gazprom the extra access.