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Lukoil can escape antitrust access duties if infrastructure bought at market price, ECJ says

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts ( December 18, 2025, 10:59 GMT | Insight) -- Lukoil can refuse to grant access to its gas terminals and warehouses in Bulgaria if it can show, among other things, that it purchased the infrastructure through a competitive privatization process, the Court of Justice of the EU has ruled in an antitrust dispute. The ruling clarifies that an owner can invoke protection, even if it did not fund and build the assets itself.Lukoil can refuse to grant access to its gas terminals and warehouses in Bulgaria if it can show, among other things, that it purchased the infrastructure through a competitive privatization process, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in an antitrust dispute....

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