§ Mr. Normantonasked the Secretary of State for Energy how many pipelines are in operation or in the course of contruction which bring gas or oil into each member State of the EEC from or through territory of the USSR or her satellites; what is their capacity; and what proportion of the energy needs of each member State this represents.
§ Dr. J. Dickson MabonAccording to my information, two pipelines bring natural gas from the USSR into the EEC via Czechoslovakia. One, with a capacity for 10 billion cubic metres per annum, runs through Austria to Italy—Genoa. The other, with a capacity estimated at 3 billion cubic metres per annum, runs through the Federal Republic of Germany, terminating at Nuremburg.
In 1975 the USSR exported gas to Italy equivalent to about one-sixteenth and to the Federal Republic of Germany about one-thirtieth of their energy needs.