The intergovernmental agreement also provides for cancellation of building the second line subject to notification to the Turkish side.
"Performance capacity of the offshore segment may be lowered on account of cancelling the Offshore Segment 2 [second line of the gas pipeline], with a formal notice of the Russian party to the Turkish party," TASS cited the document as saying.
Russia and Turkey will also exempt the Turkish Stream pipeline project from certain main taxes. In particular, offshore segment operations in exclusive economic zones and on continental shelves of both nations will not be taxed.
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