According to the decree signed by Putinwhich provides for the payment of gas in rubles by enemy countries Russia, how is the situation in Italy? It is in a state of forewarning, which involves constant monitoring of the situation. The next step but the government is not yet evaluating it would be the passage into the state of alarm provided for in the Government Contingency Plan (updated 30 September 2020). The plan is based on the crisis levels provided for by the European regulation and provides for the early warning level (exactly where we are today), the alert level and the emergency level. The EU has rejected the Russian President’s threat, but fears that it will actually turn off the taps are real.
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The Ministry of Ecological Transition, the authority responsible for the security of natural gas supply, after hearing the Technical Emergency and Surveillance Committee of the National Gas System on February 26, due to some considerations, declared the state of early warning.
The prealert
In particular, in the early warning statement we read: “Given the current state of war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine and the fact that this situation persists in the area through which most natural gas supplies for the Italian system pass; whereas the level of danger of the supply threat is significantly higher than foreseen in the risk analyzes carried out in the past under EU Regulation 2017/1938, from which the current prevention and emergency plans derive; considered it appropriate to prepare exceptional preventive measures aimed at promoting an early filling of storage facilities in relation to the procedures adopted under normal conditions, as also discussed at European level during the last meeting of the Gas Coordination Group on 23 February became; considered appropriate to sensitize the users of the national gas network to the situation of uncertainty associated with the aforementioned conflict, also with regard to the implementation of the information sheet of the Minister for the Environment of February 24, 2022, although the supply situation is currently adequate to cover domestic requirements”.