Lithuania LNG Terminal Law Faces Review by Constitutional Court
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Lithuania’s highest court agreed to examine the constitutionality of legislation behind plans to build a liquefied natural-gas terminal in the country, as requested by members of the new ruling coalition.
The Constitutional Court in Vilnius said today it would rule on terms of a law and a decree of the outgoing government that give ownership of the project to state-controlled Klaipedos Nafta AB, allow it to be financed partly by raising fees for gas transmission and require natural gas companies working in the country to buy at least 25 percent of their annual throughput from the future terminal.